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Person X is a graduate, who is working as a financial planner at company C. The president and congress involved in the dispute of acrimonious over the financing of debt and budget. The dispute which is not settled at the end of the year and effected the rate of interest.
The responsibility of person X is to compute the risk of bond portfolio of client. Person X should explain the probable scenarios for the dispute resolution and compute
o compute: The correlation coefficient with market and stock B.
To compute: The beta of stock B.
To compute: The required return of stock B and determine stock B is more or less contribute risk to a well differentiated portfolio.
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