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The current 90-days correlation between Dreyfus Short Interm and Dreyfus Intermediate Municipal is 0.88 (i.e., Very poor diversification). The correlation of Dreyfus Short is a statistical measure of how it moves in relation to other instruments. This measure is expressed in what is known as the correlation coefficient, which ranges between -1 and +1. A correlation greater than 0.8 is generally described as strong, whereas a correlation less than 0.5 is generally considered weak. If the correlation is 0, the equities are not correlated; they are entirely random.
Dreyfus Short Correlation With Market
Very good diversification
The correlation between Dreyfus Short Intermediate and DJI is -0.22 (i.e., Very good diversification) for selected investment horizon. Overlapping area represents the amount of risk that can be diversified away by holding Dreyfus Short Intermediate and DJI in the same portfolio, assuming nothing else is changed.
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