You are working on U . S . stock market performances. You have been provided weekly adjusted
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You are working on US stock market performances. You have been provided weekly
adjusted close prices for the NASDAQ National Association of Securities Dealers
Automated Quotations Composite index, Microsoft Corporation MSFT and Intel
Corporation INTC from January to December
Data available via Content Assessment resources Assignment.
Please complete the following questions:
Calculate weekly discrete returns for the NASDAQ index, Intel Corporation INTC
and Microsoft Corporation MSFT stock prices, respectively.
Please answer the following questions using the returns data obtained in Q
Compute and interpret the descriptive statistics of NASDAQ index returns, Intel
Corporation INTC and Microsoft Corporation MSFT stock prices returns,
respectively.
Which one has the highest relative risk among the weekly returns of the NASDAQ
index, INTC and MSFT Provide evidence.
Assuming normality, what is the probability of the INTC returns above What is
the probability of the MSFT returns being between and
Test whether the mean return of the NASDAQ index is significantly different from
zero at the level of significance. Test whether the mean return of INTC is
significantly different from at the level of significance.
What is the covariance of NASDAQ index returns and INTC returns? What is the
correlation coefficient between the MSFT stock returns and INTC stock returns?
To predict the weekly Intel Corporation INTC returns, your supervisor advised two
linear regression models:
Model A: Assuming a linear relationship between INTC returns and MSFT returns.
Model B: Assuming a linear relationship between INTC returns and NASDAQ
index returns.
: For model A is the intercept coefficient significant at the level? Is the slope
coefficient significant at the level?
: For model B Construct the confidence interval for the intercept coefficient,
and interpret it
: Which model you would recommend to your supervisor, and why?
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