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What Is the Correlation Coefficient? The correlation coefficient is a metric that measures the strength and direction of a relationship between two securities or variables, such as a stock and a ...

Correlation coefficients are indicators of the strength of the linear relationship between two different variables, x and y. A linear correlation coefficient that is greater than zero indicates a ...

Almost every day you can find in media commentary that XYZ is causing stocks to fall (or rise). Such definitive statements are common—but what’s almost always missing is statistical proof. And if you ...

In a nutshell, beta is a measure of how reactive a stock is to overall market movements – particularly those of the S&P 500 benchmark index. Obviously, stocks move individually, and for a variety of ...