It has been suggested that an investment portfolio selected randomly by throwing darts at the stock market

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It has been suggested that an investment portfolio selected randomly by throwing darts at the stock market page of The Wall Street Journal may be a sound (and certainly well-diversified) investment. Suppose that you own such a portfolio of 16 stocks randomly selected from all stocks listed on the New York Stock Exchange (NYSE). On a certain day, you hear on the news that the average stock on the NYSE rose 1.5 points. Assuming that the standard deviation of stock price movements that day was 2 points and assuming stock price movements were normally distributed around their mean of 1.5, what is the probability that the average stock price of your portfolio increased?

Stocks
Stocks or shares are generally equity instruments that provide the largest source of raising funds in any public or private listed company's. The instruments are issued on a stock exchange from where a large number of general public who are willing...
Portfolio
A portfolio is a grouping of financial assets such as stocks, bonds, commodities, currencies and cash equivalents, as well as their fund counterparts, including mutual, exchange-traded and closed funds. A portfolio can also consist of non-publicly...
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Complete Business Statistics

ISBN: 9780077239695

7th Edition

Authors: Amir Aczel, Jayavel Sounderpandian

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