correlation

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“The negative correlation between U.S. share prices and 10-year bond yields might not persist. However, for now, rising interest rates are quite negative for the equity market,” he said.

From MarketWatch • May 21, 2026

“Mechanically, implied correlation tends to fall when investors expect stocks to move more independently, rather than purely as a single macro trade,” Holzer told MarketWatch.

From MarketWatch • May 17, 2026

Historically, the fund has had about a 50% correlation to the stock market, according to He, meaning it moves in the same direction as stocks 50% of the time.

From Barron's • May 13, 2026

Each of those states represented a specific nonclassical correlation among the three incoming photons.

From Science Daily • May 13, 2026

In general, then, there was a direct and nearly perfect correlation between demography and ideology—that is, between the ratio of blacks to whites in the population and the reluctance to consider abolition.

From "Founding Brothers: The Revolutionary Generation" by Joseph J. Ellis