Every investor strives to balance two conflicting goals: Maximizing their investment returns and minimizing their risk. Beta offers a way to measure the amount of risk you’re taking on for a given ...

Record dangerous air quality levels continued in parts of the eastern U.S. on Thursday as smoke from Canadian wildfires continues to flow across the border. The Air Quality Index (AQI) is a measure of ...

Beta measures how volatile any given stock is when compared to overall market volatility. Analysts often use beta to gain a surface level understanding of an equity's risk profile; though the measure ...

Professor William Sharpe won the 1990 Nobel Memorial Prize in Economic Sciences for developing the capital asset pricing model, which, among other aspects, asserted that a stock’s expected return ...