Nowadays, the market is tied more closely than ever to the political stage. European rumors earlier this week demonstrated the political stronghold on the markets, which wobbled back and forth at each ...

Investors understand intuitively that some stocks are riskier than others. The capital asset pricing model attempts to quantify the common perception of risk using a term called beta. By understanding ...

On August 8, 2011, I posted this StockTalk: Panic if both Treasuries and Markets sell, and sell hard. Not the case right now, would seem a buying opportunity. The correlation between Treasuries and ...

Please Note: Blog posts are not selected, edited or screened by Seeking Alpha editors. Beta and valuation are often related: higher beta is associated with lower valuation. The relationship of beta to ...

We offer a new perspective on the low-beta anomaly by acknowledging the omitted-variable problem in the correlation component of beta: Correlation is "plagued" by firm size (the omitted variable) to ...

Investors understand intuitively that some stocks are riskier than others. The capital asset pricing model attempts to quantify the common perception of risk using a term called beta. By understanding ...