[Solved] Consider the following returns: Lowes Home Depot IBM Year End Realized Return Realized Return Realized Return 2000 20.1% -14.6% 0.2% 2001 72.7%
Question: Consider the following returns:
| Lowes | Home Depot | IBM | |
| Year End | Realized Return | Realized Return | Realized Return |
| 2000 | 20.1% | -14.6% | 0.2% |
| 2001 | 72.7% | 4.3% | -3.2% |
| 2002 | -25.7% | -58.1% | -27.0% |
| 2003 | 56.9% | 71.1% | 27.9% |
| 2004 | 6.7% | 17.3% | -5.1% |
| 2005 | 17.9% | 0.9% | -11.3% |
Required: Calculate the correlation between Home Depot ’ s and IBM ’ s returns. (6 marks)
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