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1. You want to form a portfolio between two stocks: Canadian Tire and the Apple Inc. Download the monthly price data from Yahoo! Finance pages for Canadian Tire (ticker symbol: CTC- A.TO) and Apple (ticker symbol: AAPL) from November 1, 2015 to November 1, 2020. Calculate the monthly holding period returns for each stock in Excel using the split-adjusted prices that Yahoo provides'. Use these data and Excel to answer the following questions: a. What are the average monthly return and standard deviation of returns for Canadian Tire? What are the average monthly return and standard deviation of returns for the Apple? Does risk-return relationship (trade-off) hold between these two stocks? b. Using these values, calculate the portfolio return and standard deviation for various weights in Canadian Tire and Apple: a. Calculate the portfolio return and standard deviation for weights with alternately 0%, 5%, 10%, 15%....., 95%, 100% weight in Apple and the rest in Canadian Tire. b. Graph this portfolio return and standard deviation for all possible portfolios on a graph with "Return" on the vertical axis and "Standard deviation" on the horizontal axis. (hint: Use Scatter Plot type of graph) c. Calculate the Canadian Tire's weight in the portfolio that gives the minimum standard deviation: show this portfolio on a graph built above

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