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risk definition - finance
The possibility that a negative event will occur, such as the value of investments declining below what was paid for them or investments losing all value. Investors attempt to minimize risk through diversification.

Webster's New World Finance and Investment Dictionary Copyright © 2003 by Wiley Publishing, Inc., Indianapolis, Indiana.
Used by arrangement with John Wiley & Sons, Inc.

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