Consider the following information: State   Probability   Stock A   Stock B   Stock C  Boom     0.65         0.26        -0.1        -0.08  Bust       0.35         0.15        0.16        0.18 What is the expected return on an equally weighted portfolio of these three stocks? (Hint: Equally means that each stock has the same weight. Given that there are only 3 stocks, each has a weight of 1/3) Enter the answer with 4 decimals (e.g. 0.1234).

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