Question: 1. How do we measure systematic risk? Go to yahoo finance https://finance.yahoo.com/ . In the search box, search using the following tickers AAPL, MSFT, IBM,
1. How do we measure systematic risk? Go to yahoo finance https://finance.yahoo.com/ . In the search box, search using the following tickers AAPL, MSFT, IBM, WMT, AMZN. Once you search by a company ticker, that will take you to the company page on yahoo finance. Under Summary tab, you will find "Beta (5y monthly)". Collect the values of beta for AAPL, MSFT, IBM, WMT, AMZN. Then write a one line interpretation for each of the betas. (10 points) 2. Go to https://www.bloomberg.com/markets/currencies Get the exchange rates (the second column titled, "Value") for the follwoing and interpret them: (5 points) EUR-USD, USD-JPY, GBP-USD, AUD-USD, and USD-CAD. Hint: I am doing the first one for you. EUR-USD is 1.0817. You will read it as EUR to USD, which is same as USD per EURO. The value is 1.0816. It means that for each EURO, you will get 1.0816 USD. 3. Now read about the direct quotes and indirect quotes from the poweroint slides on Multinational Finance and identify the direct and indirect quotes form above. (5 points) Hint: For example, EUR-USD is a direct quote because EUR-USD (EUR to USD) is basically USD per EURO (or, USD/EUR). The value is in the units of your domestic currency USD and it says how many USD you will get for 1 EUR. The opposite is an indirect quote. So, foreign currency-USD (which is same as USD per foreign currency) is direct quote, and USD-foreign currency (which is same as foreign currency per USD) is an indirect quote 3. Calculate AUD-CAD using AUD-USD and USD-CAD from above. (5 points) Hint: I am doing a similar one for you. I will calculate EUR-JPY using EUR-USD and USD-JPY from above. You will read EUR-JPY as EUR to JPY. This is same as JPY per EURO or JPY/EUR. Similarly, EUR-USD is USD/EUR, and USD-JPY is JPY/USD. Now, EUR-USD = 1.0816, or USD/EUR = 1.0816 USD-JPY = 128.4, or JPY/USD = 128.4 Now, I will calculate EUR-JPY, or JPY/EUR from the above two exchange rates. JPY/EUR = JPY/USD * USD/EUR =128.4 * 1.0816 =138.87744 So, EUR-JPY = 138.87744 Please check the cross rates (in powerpoint slides and practice problem set on multinational finance) if it is still not clear
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