Leslie Kramer is a writer for Institutional Investor, correspondent for CNBC, journalist for Investopedia, and managing editor for Markets Group. Correlation measures the linear relationship between ...

Successful investing requires the ability to distinguish long-term trends from the short-term noise that moves stock prices on a minute-to-minute basis. One way to tune out the random oscillations and ...

Correlation measures the linear relationship between two variables. It gives an indication of the strength of the relationship by measuring and relating the variance of each. Correlation answers the ...