Which of the Following Statements Is CORRECT

question 93

Multiple Choice

Which of the following statements is CORRECT?

• A) Portfolio diversification reduces the variability of returns on an individual stock.
• B) Risk refers to the chance that some unfavorable event will occur, and a probability distribution is completely described by a listing of the likelihood of unfavorable events.
• C) The SML relates a stock's required return to its market risk.The slope and intercept of this line cannot be controlled by the firms' managers, but managers can influence their firms' positions on the line by such actions as changing the firm's capital structure or the type of assets it employs.
• D) A stock with a beta of -1.0 has zero market risk if held in a 1-stock portfolio.
• E) When diversifiable risk has been diversified away, the inherent risk that remains is market risk, which is constant for all stocks in the market.

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Definitions:

Seasonal Variations

Patterns that occur within data sets at regular intervals due to seasonal changes, impacting analysis in fields such as economics, meteorology, and more.

Deseasonalized Time Series

A time series from which seasonal influences have been removed to better identify real trends, cycles, and irregular variations in the data.

Monthly Seasonal Indexes

Quantitative measures that adjust for seasonal variation in data by month, often used in forecasting and analyzing trends.

Moving Average

A statistical technique used to analyze data points by creating a series of averages of different subsets of the full data set.