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 ...

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.

Sean Ross is a strategic adviser at 1031x.com, Investopedia contributor, and the founder and manager of Free Lances Ltd. Thomas J Catalano is a CFP and Registered Investment Adviser with the state of ...