beta
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Actresses Rachel Sennott and Kristen Bell are among the celebrities who have spoken publicly about taking beta blockers, along with the influencer Khloé Kardashian.
From BBC ● Aug. 18, 2026
The researchers also saw less amyloid beta accumulating in cells, while nerve cells were better able to maintain their function and avoid dying.
From Science Daily ● Aug. 17, 2026
A beta above 1 means an individual stock tends to see bigger swings than the broader market.
From MarketWatch ● Aug. 17, 2026
“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
“Rishi, why are you saying all this, beta? Where did you get these ideas? Plan sub change kar rahe ho—you’re changing all your plans. For whom? Dimple ne kuch kahaa?”
From "When Dimple Met Rishi" by Sandhya Menon
Any beta higher than 1 means a stock is more volatile than the S&P 500, while betas of less than 1 are less wild.
From Barron's ● Dec. 1, 2025
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
In the final segment, we focus on the betas coming out of Cupertino this week.
From The Verge ● Jul. 15, 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
