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With fewer options free of AI risks, investors have had to turn to other corners of the stock market to provide some buffer against an AI-related unwinding, and negative beta has increasingly become an option.
From MarketWatch ● Oct. 7, 2026
A stock with negative beta routinely trades opposite the broader market.
From MarketWatch ● Oct. 6, 2026
In mice, researchers found that ImP reaching the brain increased the accumulation of abnormal beta amyloid and tau proteins, two major hallmarks associated with Alzheimer's disease.
From Science Daily ● Oct. 3, 2026
With every merger there’s a dominant and a submissive, an alpha and a beta, a winner and a loser.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 15, 2026
Radium emitted alpha particles at a meager 7.6 million electron volts and beta rays—that is, electrons—at only 3 million volts.
From "Big Science" by Michael Hiltzik
Defensive stocks in consumer staples, utilities, and healthcare, with betas larger than -0.1%, tend to gain when the market declines.
From Barron's ● Jun. 24, 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
As was the case with Samsung’s previous One UI betas, you can access the One UI 5 update by registering through the Samsung Members app.
From The Verge ● Aug. 7, 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
