Business and Personal Finance Dictionary

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• CHARACTERISTIC LINE
  
  The line of "bet fit" through a series of historical returns for the firm's stock relative to the market returns. The slope of this line, called beta, represents the average movement of the firm's stock returns in response to a change in the market's returns.
  
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