economic state            stock A            stock B depression                      -0.20                0.05 recession                           0.10                0.20 normal                                0.30                -0.12 boom                                   0.50                 0.09   a) what is the correlation in the stocks´return?

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economic state            stock A            stock B

depression                      -0.20                0.05

recession                           0.10                0.20

normal                                0.30                -0.12

boom                                   0.50                 0.09

 

a) what is the correlation in the stocks´return?

b) find the weights that make up the global minimum variance portfolio (GMVP) and calculate the portfolio´s expected return and risk

 

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Correlation in the stock returns is a statistic measure the degree to which securities move in relation with each other.It is computed as correlation coefficient which has a value that must fall between -1.0 and +1.0


Formula for correlation coefficient r=                                                                                                                                                   n*(SUM(X,Y)-(SUM(X)-SUM(Y)))(n*SUM(X2)-SUM(X)2)(n*SUM(Y2)-SUM(Y)2

where r stands for the correlation coefficient.
X and Y are the returns of the stock A and B respectively.

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