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Re:Index Investing Makes Markets and Economies More Efficien... by stouset on Tuesday September 19, 2017 @08:04PM (#15289765)
You're leaving out a description of how they manage to own an imbalanced quantity of A and B in the first place.

Keep in mind that this doesn't (at least not naïvely) happen when one of the two increases or decreases in value relative to the other.

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Re:Index Investing Makes Markets and Economies More Efficien... by Retric on Wednesday September 20, 2017 @08:02AM (#15292742)
Stock buyback's are one example, but companies can also issue/aka create new stock from thin air and sell it. Though clearly less extreme than I was describing, the forces are similar.
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