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correlation

[kawr-uh-ley-shuhn, kor-] / ˌkɔr əˈleɪ ʃən, ˌkɒr- /


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Thursday’s price action was indicative of this extreme correlation.

From Barron's • Jun. 11, 2026

The 63 trading day, or three month, rolling correlation on Friday reached negative 0.67, which is the most negative value since Nov. 5, 1996.

From Barron's • Jun. 11, 2026

But over the short and even intermediate terms, lasting not just several years but decades, gold’s correlation to inflation is unstable.

From MarketWatch • Jun. 8, 2026

The two-year Treasury yield, considered more sensitive to Fed policy, rose to 4.135% from 4.043% after the stronger-than-expected U.S. labor report, breaking the recent correlation between yields-dollar and oil prices.

From The Wall Street Journal • Jun. 5, 2026

Scientists use something called a correlation to measure how closely one factor predicts another, and overall, the students’ ratings correlated with the experts’ ratings by .55, which is quite a high correlation.

From "Blink" by Malcolm Gladwell




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