In this Case Study, you will be looking at the effect of the Global Financial Crisis (GFC) and the Great Recession on Apple stock.In the file called "Apple Inc.xls", there is monthly data from June, 2001 to June, 2016, on the share price of Apple stock and the Dow Jones Industrials.You will be looking at a number of important dates: December 2007, when the GFC and the Great Recession had officially begun, September, 2008, when the US Government allowed Lehman Brothers, an Investment Bank, to go bankrupt, and June, 2009, when the National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) declared that the Great Recession had ended.

Obtain line graphs for both the share price of Apple stock and the Dow Jones Industrial average, over the whole period and comment on any similarities or differences between them.