{"id":216560,"date":"2018-09-15T21:19:19","date_gmt":"2018-09-15T21:19:19","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/localhost\/wordpress\/index.php\/2018\/09\/15\/fin-402-week-3-weekly-question\/"},"modified":"2018-10-24T09:08:03","modified_gmt":"2018-10-24T09:08:03","slug":"fin-402-week-3-weekly-question","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.benedictsol.com\/blogs\/fin-402-week-3-weekly-question\/","title":{"rendered":"FIN 402 Week 3 Weekly Question"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Submit your Weekly Questions, with original questions, in a Microsoft Word or text file. Be sure to show your work to earn full credit.\t1. \ufffd (2 point) Use the expected return and Beta calculated in Week 2 Homework Questions #1 for the stocks listed: P&#038;G, Microsoft, Macy&#8217;s, JP Morgan Chase and Southern Company. You will make three portfolios:\ta. \ufffd\u00a0 Equal weight each of the stocks in the portfolio\tb. \ufffd Select the two lowest beta stocks and weight them at 30% each, the two highest beta stocks at 10% each, and the last one at 20% (Low beta portfolio)\tc. \ufffd\u00a0 Select the two highest beta stocks and weight them at 30% each of the portfolio, the two lowest beta stocks at 10% and the last one at 20% (high beta portfolio)\tFor each of the portfolios, calculate the weighted average expected returns and the weighted average beta. Show your work for credit.\t2. \ufffd (1 point) Discuss the difference between systematic risk and unsystematic risk. Give two examples of each.\t(2 points) You are an analyst responsible for researching Macy&#8217;s. Part of your job is to keep up with changes in the economy and analyze how it will impact Macy&#8217;s. Choose two macroeconomic indicators (data that is regularly released only please) discussed in your textbook and discuss how these variables will influence Macy&#8217;s operations.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Submit your Weekly Questions, with original questions, in a Microsoft Word or text file. Be sure to show your work to earn full credit. 1. \ufffd (2 point) Use the expected return and Beta calculated in Week 2 Homework Questions <a href=\"https:\/\/www.benedictsol.com\/blogs\/fin-402-week-3-weekly-question\/\" class=\"read-more\">Read More &#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-216560","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.benedictsol.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/216560","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.benedictsol.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.benedictsol.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.benedictsol.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.benedictsol.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=216560"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.benedictsol.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/216560\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.benedictsol.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=216560"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.benedictsol.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=216560"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.benedictsol.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=216560"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}