Stock X Has a Standard Deviation of 21 Percent Per

question 2

Multiple Choice

Stock X has a standard deviation of 21 percent per year and stock Y has a standard deviation of 6 percent per year.The correlation between stock A and stock B is .38.You have a portfolio of these two stocks wherein stock X has a portfolio weight of 42 percent.What is your portfolio standard deviation?

• A)8.89 percent
• B)9.85 percent
• C)10.64 percent
• D)11.84 percent
• E)12.92 percent

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