COVARIANCE
Measure of the degree in which returns on two assets moving in tandem. A positive covariance signals the asset returns glide together. Conversely, a negative covariance indicates the returns move inversely. One way of computing covariance is by looking at return surprises in every scenario. Another is by multiplying the correlation between two variables by the standard deviation of each.
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