Mr. John is a financial analyst at Credit Suisse Bank and in charge of covering General Electric
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Mr. John is a financial analyst at Credit Suisse Bank and in charge of covering General Electric (GE) stock. Based on the figures, he found the following:
Standard Deviation of GE Returns over the past Five years = 3.1%
Standard Deviation of S&P 500 Returns over the past Five years = 2.3%
Correlation of 0.45 between GE stock and S&P 500 index.
a) Based on the above figures, calculate the beta coefficient of GE stock.
b) Upon further statistical testing for the derived beta, John obtained a p-value of 0.0764 for the t-test.
(1) Comment on this result.
(2) What is its implications on the estimated beta?
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