Question

Series

Average return
Standard Deviation
Large-company stocks 10.7 % 19.3 %
Small-company stocks 16.4
33.0

Long-term corporate bonds 6.2
8.4

Long-term government bonds 6.1
9.4

Intermediate-term government bonds 5.6
5.7

U.S. Treasury bills 3.8
3.1

Inflation 3.1
4.2
What range of returns would you expect to see 68 percent of the time for large-company stocks?

May 1, 2014

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