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volatility cluster

volatility cluster noun: the occurrence of a great swing in an index being nonrandomly adjacent to others.

Noun

volatility cluster (countable and uncountable, plural volatility clusters)

  1. (quantitative analysis) The occurrence of a great swing in an index being nonrandomly adjacent to others.
    • Figure 3 shows the volatility clustering for oil, gold, and the five developing bond market return series in the period between 2008 and 2022. Regarding the magnitude of volatility clustering, China, India, Russia, and especially oil, appear more volatile than other markets and volatility clusters...2018 August 11, Kirkpinar Ayşegül, Evrim Mandaci Pınar, “A volatility spillover analysis between bond and commodity markets as an indicator for global liquidity risk”, in Panoeconomicus, volume 70...

Forms of volatility cluster

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Questions about volatility cluster

What does volatility cluster mean?
Volatility cluster means the occurrence of a great swing in an index being nonrandomly adjacent to others.
What part of speech is volatility cluster?
Volatility cluster is a noun.
What is the plural of volatility cluster?
The plural of volatility cluster is volatility clusters.

Words near volatility cluster in the dictionary

  1. volatility auctions
  2. volatility buffer
  3. volatility buffers
  4. volatility circuit breaker
  5. volatility circuit breakers
  6. volatility cluster
  7. volatility clustering
  8. volatility clusterings
  9. volatility clusters
  10. volatility decay
  11. volatility decays

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