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What does Volatility mean?

A statistical measure of the dispersion of returns for a given security or market index; it is often used to refer to the amount of uncertainty or risk about the size of changes in a security's value.

Volatility in a sentence
The stock market is experiencing high volatility due to the recent economic news.

Volatility in German, French, Spanish and Italian

German
Volatilität
also Schwankungsbreite

Ein Maß für das Risiko einer Kapitalanlage.

French
Volatilité

Mesure de l'ampleur des variations du cours d'un actif.

Spanish
Volatilidad

Grado de variación de los precios a lo largo del tiempo.

Italian
Volatilità

Misura della variazione dei prezzi di un titolo nel tempo.

Common phrases with Volatility

  • experience volatility
  • measure volatility
  • reduce volatility

Synonyms and opposites for Volatility

  • Synonym Fluctuation
  • Synonym Instability
  • Opposite Stability
  • Opposite Steady state

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