Question Help Internet exercise. Find the Standard & Poor's 500 annual returns for 2000 to the...

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Question Help Internet exercise. Find the Standard & Poor's 500 annual returns for 2000 to the present "Go to Yahoo! Finance (https://finance.yahoo.com), and in the search field, enter SPY (the ticker symbol for the Standard & Poor's 500 exchange-traded fund) Select historical data, and find the year-end prices for the fund (use close price) and all dividends from 2000 through the end of 2013. Find each year's return (remember to add in the dividend distributions for the year). What was the arithmetic average annual return? What was the standard deviation? How does the standard deviation compare with the data in Table 8.1? Click on the Spreadsheet Learning Aid to see Table 8.1-Year-by-Year Returns, 1950-1999. Hint: Make sure to round all intermediate calculations to at least seven (7) decimal places. The input instructions, phrases in parenthesis after each answer box, only apply for the answers you will type. What is the return for each year? (Round to two decimal places.) Year 2000 2001 2002 2003 2004 Annual Retur % 17% % % % Enter your answer in each of the answer boxes. D ? Question Help Internet exercise. Find the Standard & Poor's 500 annual returns for 2000 to the present "Go to Yahoo! Finance (https://finance.yahoo.com), and in the search field, enter SPY (the ticker symbol for the Standard & Poor's 500 exchange-traded fund) Select historical data, and find the year-end prices for the fund (use close price) and all dividends from 2000 through the end of 2013. Find each year's return (remember to add in the dividend distributions for the year). What was the arithmetic average annual return? What was the standard deviation? How does the standard deviation compare with the data in Table 8.1? Click on the Spreadsheet Learning Aid to see Table 8.1-Year-by-Year Returns, 1950-1999. Hint: Make sure to round all intermediate calculations to at least seven (7) decimal places. The input instructions, phrases in parenthesis after each answer box, only apply for the answers you will type. What is the return for each year? (Round to two decimal places.) Year 2000 2001 2002 2003 2004 Annual Retur % 17% % % % Enter your answer in each of the answer boxes. D ?