Uptown Markets Stock Has a Standard Deviation of 16

question 74

Multiple Choice

Uptown Markets stock has a standard deviation of 16.8 percent and a covariance with the market of 0.02.The market has a standard deviation of 13.7 percent.What is the correlation of this stock with the market?

• A) 0.74
• B) 0.78
• C) 0.87
• D) 0.89
• E) 0.91

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