decouple

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de·cou·ple | \ (ˌ)dē-ˈkə-pəl

decoupled; decoupling; decouples

Definition of decouple

transitive verb

: to eliminate the interrelationship of : separate

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to have a fruitful discussion, we need to decouple fact from opinion

Recent Examples on the Web McCormick will also push to decouple test results from teacher evaluations. — Arika Herron, Indianapolis Star, "ILEARN scores are back and fewer than half of Indiana's students passed. Here's what's next.," 4 Sep. 2019 The tool allows users to decouple the third-party data, like search history and store purchases, from their Facebook profile. — Fortune, "How Facebook’s New Privacy Tool Will—or Won’t—Affect Its Ad Business," 26 Aug. 2019 To remediate the effects of climate change in any serious way, the next president will have to remake the entire energy sector, decouple the economy from fossil fuels, and ensure workers and frontline communities aren’t abandoned in the process. — Emily Atkin, The New Republic, "Why We’re Challenging the 2020 Democrats to a Climate Summit," 11 July 2019 Between those extremes, Mr. Pillsbury sees a more likely and desirable middle path—a transactional U.S.-China relationship of the sort that prevailed during the 1980s in which the two decide, case by case, when to do business and when to decouple. — Greg Ip, WSJ, "Trump Didn’t Kill the Global Trade System. He Split It in Two.," 26 Dec. 2018 The companies were decoupled in 2006 after functioning as one corporate entity from 2000 to 2005. — Los Angeles Times, "Bakish will get a big raise as head of ViacomCBS; Ianniello committed to stay on until 2021," 19 Aug. 2019 Microsoft also previously decoupled Cortana from search in the recent Windows 10 May 2019 Update, and now the company is bringing Cortana to the Microsoft Store as a separate app. — Tom Warren, The Verge, "Microsoft will drop Cortana from Xbox One as part of another dashboard redesign," 24 July 2019 The government has attempted to decouple economic frustrations from the swelling political anxieties, suggesting that the protesters are simply disaffected youth upset over their job prospects. — Time, "'Whenever There’s Trouble He Rushes There.' Meet Legislator Roy Kwong, the God of Hong Kong Protests," 20 July 2019 Starting in the 1970s, environmental policies in America and Europe decoupled lead pollution from economic growth. — The Economist, "Arctic lead levels shed new light on Europe’s history," 10 July 2019

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decouple

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Financial Definition of decouple

What It Is

Decoupling refers to instances in which security prices behave contrary to normally-occurring correlations.

How It Works

Movements in the price of different securities may be directly or indirectly correlated. In other words, as a given type of security rises in price, the price of another type of security might be expected to fall or also rise depending on its exposure to market dynamics. Decoupling refers to the divergence in securities' expected price behavior vis-à-vis one another.

For instance, the stock and bond prices for a given company generally rise and fall in response to fluctuations in market demand. However, a rise in the price of the stock accompanied by a rise in interest rates causing the market value of the bond to move in the opposite direction would constitute decoupling.

Why It Matters

Investors and analysts rely on security price correlations in order to gauge market trends and help with strategic decisions. Investors and analysts should be aware of discrete changes in market dynamics that might require them to investigate thoroughly such price relationships under certain circumstances.

Source: Investing Answers