Nick Lioudis is a writer, multimedia professional, consultant, and content manager for Bread. He has also spent 10+ years as a journalist. Yarilet Perez is an experienced multimedia journalist and ...

Beta is the 2nd letter in the Greek alphabet, and the financial world uses it to refer to the sensitivity of an asset’s price compared to a specific index or benchmark. Beta is also used as a measure ...

Daniel McNulty began writing for Investopedia in 2012. His work includes articles on financial analysis, asset allocation, and trading strategies. Andy Smith is a Certified Financial Planner (CFP®), ...

Simply collecting data is not enough. You can fill spreadsheets with data, but it's useless if you can't act on it. Regression is one of the most powerful statistical tools for finding relationships ...

We often hear the word beta in the context of “beta test”. It’s a way of testing something (e.g. a software program) in a real-world situation to iron out any glitches before rolling it out to the ...