The betas of the foreign ETFs we studied ranged from 0.66 (Japan) to 1.33 (Italy).
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In years past, Microsoft has dubbed its preview releases as release candidates or betas.
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Higher and lower betas indicate more or less divergence from the respective market averages.
In development at Adhesive Games, over 500, 000 people have been playing the Unreal Engine 3-powered shooter through closed betas.
The bottom line: Investing in speculative stocks (usually smaller stocks with higher betas) is always a risky venture.
Now it's adding a new file format called Bundle to its lineup of experimental alphas and betas.
Namely, stocks with the best returns were those with both low raw volatility and low betas, the research indicates.
Exxon Mobil and Chevron feature lower betas compared with competition across the Atlantic.
Previous public betas of iOS can no longer download iTunes Match songs.
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Of course like all betas, there's no guarantee these features will make it into the final build, but we sure hope they do.
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And there has been some mention of Diablo 3 and Star Wars: The Old Republic betas starting up within that timeframe as well.
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Utilities as a group, for example, have very low Betas, but right now they are one of the worst performing sectors of the economy.
People expect betas to work, and even use them productively today (which historically has been a no go, no admin would have deployed beta software).
Mozilla has introduced a new feature into the Firefox 13 betas called Reset Firefox which allows users to reset browser settings while retaining personal data.
Common sense aside, consumers complained about this during your public betas.
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Instead, consider looking at the types of stocks you are holding and see if there are more attractive candidates with higher betas and stronger potential for earnings growth.
What I mean by that is that usually open betas allow lots of players to explore the game more fully and they do things like create large guilds and level together longer.
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The Mac beta version of Guild Wars 2 is still being optimised and, unlike other betas, is connected to the live servers allowing everyone to play together on both Mac and Windows based computers.
First, we must congratulate the entire XBMC team on reaching the tenth anniversary of one of the project's first betas hitting the internet, when Yet Another Media Play (YAMP) and Xbox Media Player joined forces to create something beautiful.
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