You Plotted the Monthly Rate of Return for Two Securities

question 55

Multiple Choice

You plotted the monthly rate of return for two securities against time for the past 48 months.If the pattern of the movements of these two sets of returns rose and fell together the majority,but not all,of the time,then the securities have

• A)no correlation at all.
• B)a weak negative correlation.
• C)a strong negative correlation.
• D)a strong positive correlation.
• E)a perfect positive correlation.

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