Correlation Analysis Between OMX COPENHAGEN and Seoul Comp

Overlapping area represents the amount of risk that can be diversified away by holding OMX COPENHAGEN and Seoul Comp in the same portfolio assuming nothing else is changed. The correlation between historical prices or returns on Seoul Comp and OMX COPENHAGEN is a relative statistical measure of the degree to which these equity instruments tend to move together. The correlation coefficient measures the extent to which returns on OMX COPENHAGEN are associated (or correlated) with Seoul Comp. Values of the correlation coefficient range from -1 to +1, where. The correlation of zero (0) is possible when the price movement of Seoul Comp has no effect on the direction of OMX COPENHAGEN i.e. OMX COPENHAGEN and Seoul Comp go up and down completely randomly.