Fidelity Short-term Correlations

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The current 90-days correlation between Fidelity Short Term and Fidelity Intermediate Treasury is 0.85 (i.e., Very poor diversification). The correlation of Fidelity Short-term 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.

Fidelity Short-term Correlation With Market

Significant diversification

The correlation between Fidelity Short Term Treasury and DJI is 0.06 (i.e., Significant diversification) for selected investment horizon. Overlapping area represents the amount of risk that can be diversified away by holding Fidelity Short Term Treasury and DJI in the same portfolio, assuming nothing else is changed.
  
Check out Investing Opportunities to better understand how to build diversified portfolios, which includes a position in Fidelity Short Term Treasury. Also, note that the market value of any mutual fund could be closely tied with the direction of predictive economic indicators such as signals in bureau of labor statistics.

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Risk-Adjusted Indicators

There is a big difference between Fidelity Mutual Fund performing well and Fidelity Short-term Mutual Fund doing well as a business compared to the competition. There are so many exceptions to the norm that investors cannot definitively determine what's good or bad unless they analyze Fidelity Short-term's multiple risk-adjusted performance indicators across the competitive landscape. These indicators are quantitative in nature and help investors forecast volatility and risk-adjusted expected returns across various positions.