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question 86

Multiple Choice

Use the following information to answer the question(s) below.
Suppose the market consists only of Merck (MRK) and Boeing (BA) .Merck stock is trading for $36.70 per share with 2.11 billion shares outstanding while Boeing has 697.5 million shares outstanding and a market capitalization of $38.223 billion.Assume that you hold the market portfolio.
-Which of the following statements is FALSE?

• A)The market portfolio contains more of the smallest stocks and less of the larger stocks.
• B)For the market portfolio,the investment in each security is proportional to its market capitalization.
• C)Because the market portfolio is defined as the total supply of securities,the proportions should correspond exactly to the proportion of the total market that each security represents.
• D)Market capitalization is the total market value of the outstanding shares of a firm.

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