TABLE 12-7 An Investment Specialist Claims That If One Holds a Portfolio

Multiple Choice

TABLE 12-7
An investment specialist claims that if one holds a portfolio that moves in the opposite direction to the market index like the S&P 500, then it is possible to reduce the variability of the portfolio's return. In other words, one can create a portfolio with positive returns but less exposure to risk. A sample of 26 years of S&P 500 Index and a portfolio consisting of stocks of private prisons, which are believed to be negatively related to the S&P 500 Index, is collected. A regression analysis was performed by regressing the returns of the prison stocks portfolio (Y) on the returns of S&P 500 Index (X) to prove that the prison stocks portfolio is negatively related to the S&P 500 Index at a 5% level of significance. The results are given in the following Microsoft Excel output.

Note: 2.94942E-07 = 2.94942 * 10-7
-Referring to Table 12-7, to test whether the prison stocks portfolio is negatively related to the S&P 500 Index, the p-value of the associated test statistic is ________.

A) 2.94942E-07
B) 2.94942E-07 / 2
C) (2.94942E-07) 2
D) 8.7932E-13