underlying

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Investing directly in oil and gas shares clearly involves taking on more stock-specific risk, and the returns may not be correlated exactly, or immediately, with the underlying commodity.

From MarketWatch • Apr. 9, 2026

That is even as the underlying fundamentals for the largest cyber vendors remain strong.

From The Wall Street Journal • Apr. 8, 2026

"This will in turn make it easier to identify the underlying causes that make the information disappear," he said.

From Science Daily • Apr. 8, 2026

Anyone who buys options is likely to struggle because the underlying security would have to move an extraordinary percentage for them to make money buying the calls or puts.

From Barron's • Apr. 8, 2026

Indeed, he thought that water was a common principle underlying all of matter, just as today we might say the same of electrons, protons and neutrons, or of quarks.

From "Cosmos" by Carl Sagan