could someone please explain to me why the decrease in stock price ( from 20th April) for the west texas intermediate is unusual? and explain why this has occurred and why the recovery is so sharp.

Returns earned over a given time period are called realized returns. Historical data on realized returns is often used to estimate future results. Analysts across companies use realized stock returns to estimate the risk of a stock. Consider the case of Falcon Freight Inc. (FF): Five years of realized returns for FF are given in the following table. Remember:   1. While FF was started 40 years ago, its common stock has been publicly traded for the past 25 years. 2. The returns on its equity are calculated as arithmetic returns. 3. The historical returns for FF for 2014 to 2018 are:   2014 2015 2016 2017 2018 Stock return 25.00% 17.00% 30.00% 42.00% 13.00%   Given the preceding data, the average realized return on FF’s stock is (63.50%, 25.40%, 50.80%, 78.74%) .   The preceding data series represents (the population, a sample, the universe) of FF’s historical returns. Based on this conclusion, the standard deviation of FF’s historical…

Use the data below to construct the advance/decline line for the stock market. Volume figures are in thousands of shares. (Input all amounts as positive values. Do not round intermediate calculations. Round your answers to the nearest whole number.)     StocksAdvancing AdvancingVolume StocksDeclining DecliningVolume Monday 1,809 703,133 1,335 551,144 Tuesday 1,941 603,360 1,311 452,797 Wednesday 1,815 624,994 1,343 720,931 Thursday 2,480 1,114,410 550 174,342 Friday 1,688 511,962 1,472 496,960

Consider the following information: Rate of Return if State Occurs State of Economy Probability of State of Economy Stock A Stock B Recession 21 .06 21 Normal 58 109 08 Boom 21 14 25 a. Calculate the expected return for Stocks A and B. (Do not round Intermediate calculations and enter your answers as a percent rounded to 2 decimal places, e.g., 32.16.) b. Calculate the standard deviation for Stocks A and B. (Do not round Intermedlate calculations and enter your answers as a percent rounded to 2 decimal places, e.g., 32.16.) a. Stock A expected return a. Stock B expected return b. Stock A standard deviation b. Stock B standard deviation 196 96 96 %

“If most of the call options on a stock are in the money, it is likely that the stock price has risen rapidly in the last few months.” Discuss this statement

Please provide detailed solution and give the explanation of correct and incorrect options.

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Assume these are the stock market and Treasury bill returns for a 5-year period: Required: a. What was the risk premium on common stock in each year? b. What was the average risk premium? c. What was the standard deviation of the risk premium? (Ignore that the estimation is from a sample of data.) Complete this question by entering your answers in the tabs below. What was the standard deviation of the risk premium? (Ignore that the estimation is from a sample of data.) Note: Do not round intermediate calculations. Enter your answer as a percent rounded to 2 decimal places.

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Which of the following is TRUE?   a. A bull market is where stocks, on average, are expected to go up in the near future.   b. A bull market is the primary market where IPO's are introduced.   c. A bull market is a situation where the price of stock in that market has been rising over a fairly long period of time   d. A bull market is a market where there are more buyers than sellers, there have been more purchases of stock than sales of stock and a lot of stock is traded every day.