The low-volatility premium may be the most compelling anomaly in financial markets - less risky securities outperform their riskier counterparts over the long term. Since the low volatility factor ...

Volatility is a measure of risk that is the statistical quantification of a security's possible investment returns. In short, it means large swings in price over a short period of time. Volatility in ...

Stock market volatility refers to the frequency and size of a market move in either direction over a specified time period. Higher volatility is usually a sign of increased risk, but it can also ...

Daniel Liberto is a journalist with over 10 years of experience working with publications such as the Financial Times, The Independent, and Investors Chronicle. Thomas J Catalano is a CFP and ...

Volatility is a statistical measure of the amount an asset’s price changes during a given period of time. It has become a popular way of assessing how risky an asset is – the higher the level of ...

October’s stock-market volatility is a crime in search of a motive. That’s because there is no apparent reason why the U.S. stock market should be more volatile in October than in September. Absent ...

Look at a chart of the Standard & Poor’s 500 index today: It’s like a mountain range in Mordor — jagged movements, all up and down. Today, the Dow Jones industrial average fell more than 560 points at ...

Monday afternoon, I received an urgent email from a producer at Boston's ABC affiliate asking me to go on the air to explain why the Dow had dropped 1,500 points and what people should do about it.