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Abbi is a final year student in OxfordUniversity doing her dissertation. After discussing with her supervisor, her research objective is to estimate the relationship between returns of stocks and level of risk of stocks (i.e. standard deviation of stock returns). Abbi is using primary data and secondary data for her research.
Date |
Tesco Stock Price |
01/05/2019 |
220.0 |
01/06/2019 |
224.1 |
01/07/2019 |
220.7 |
01/08/2019 |
216.6 |
01/09/2019 |
238.2 |
01/10/2019 |
232.5 |
01/11/2019 |
229.4 |
01/12/2019 |
255.2 |
01/01/2020 |
246.9 |
01/02/2020 |
228.5 |
01/03/2020 |
228.8 |
01/04/2020 |
218.8 |
03/04/2020 |
223.9 |
- In her dissertation, Abbi states that primary data is qualitative data. Is it correct? If not, how would you explain to Abbi?
- The monthly percentage change on 01/04/2020?( explain how you calculate in excel, which formula you use). thank you in advance
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