Round Numbers and Security Returns by Edward Johnson et al: https://pdfs.semanticscholar.org/7731/c305735ecb9cf3f3f48afff5293ecb934e14.pdf
Prices of stocks tend to cluster around round numbers! The paper doesn't find any clear explanation, but it seems likely it's a human bias somewhere.
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