beta
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“You can go get stock-market beta with ETFs in a very fee-efficient and tax-efficient manner, and then use your active budget elsewhere where there might be more opportunities, like fixed income,” he said.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 16, 2026
A beta of 1 means the stock’s volatility has matched the index’s price volatility.
From MarketWatch ● Aug. 12, 2026
The company plans to begin beta service with select mobile-network partners in 2026.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 10, 2026
While the new version of Siri AI is still in public beta, essentially a testing phase before broader release, Cook said it is part of "an enormous opportunity for Apple going forward in AI."
From BBC ● Jul. 30, 2026
So I went down and spoke to Doerr and Jim Clark, and I began using the beta version of the Mosaic browser.
From "The World Is Flat" by Thomas L. Friedman
On June 5, when the chip ETF fell 9.2%, several utility and real estate stocks showed resilience, with betas below one.
From Barron's ● Jun. 16, 2026
Consider the performance of a hypothetical portfolio that buys the 10% of stocks with the highest betas and sells short the decile of stocks with the lowest betas.
From MarketWatch ● Oct. 23, 2025
“We’re betas pretending to be alphas,” Denton said.
From New York Times ● Nov. 3, 2022
Even in the early betas, iOS 16 was more stable than most new software, which says something not only about Apple’s capabilities but also about how much it’s really writing from scratch here.
From The Verge ● Sep. 12, 2022
Greek letters move across the undersides of his eyelids: isosceles triangles, betas, sine curves.
From "All the Light We Cannot See" by Anthony Doerr
