tendency

The brutal divergence in performance is caused by what traders call “volatility decay,” or the tendency of price fluctuations to erode the long-term returns of a leveraged fund, even if the underlying asset goes up.

It’s very possible the companies that pass the screen have no credit problems to speak of, but the stock market has a tendency to sell first and ask questions later.

These three bad ideas reflect a deeper pattern: an ideological tendency to sacrifice the many to advance an identity-based vision of justice.

He mused about how his tendency to linger around the free throw line can cause problems for guards.

The first minute of “My Old Ways” suggests that Mr. Parker is aware of his tendency to process and rework his songs to the point where they lose some of their life.