Higher Prices for Natural Resources Are

question 550

Multiple Choice

Higher prices for natural resources are

• A) a natural and inevitable result of resource depletion.
• B) not possible for more than a short time, as technological advances clearly guarantee falling resource prices.
• C) not the story of the last two centuries, because resource prices have decline through most of this period.
• D) the major cause of resource shortages in the world.

Understand and calculate the correlation coefficient between two securities.

Calculate the expected return of a portfolio based on its constituents and their weights.

Understand the concept of perfectly negatively correlated securities and their impact on portfolio risk and return.

Understand and interpret probability distributions for stock returns.

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