Chapter 2, Problem 6MC

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Case summary:

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 rate of return for 10 years zero coupon treasury bond for each cases.

To compute: The portfolio returns for each year, standard deviation, and average return and the way in which risk of the two stocks compare with the single stock risk.