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Summary: Markets are swinging wildly, but Warren Buffett insists volatility is not risk but opportunity. And 7 Indian businesses prove him right, showing why volatility is not something to be afraid of. Check them below. Markets today resemble a roller-coaster. Every fresh headline, whether about Trump’s tariff mayhem or domestic growth forecasts, sends indices lurching up one day and tumbling the next. For most investors, such volatility triggers fear and a flight to safety. But Warren Buffett would urge you to do the opposite. The investing maven has long argued that market volatility is not risk, but opportunity. In his words, investors should treat market swings as a friend, not an enemy, because bouts of panic often push solid companies to irrationally low prices. A wildly fluctuating market, according to him, periodically attaches silly valuations to good businesses. That, in his view, is not a hazard but a gift for patient investors. The case for volatility Finance academia, however, has traditionally disagreed. Finance theory equates volatility with risk, using a metric called beta. Beta measures how much a stock moves relative to the market (benchmark index). A beta of one means t






