Compute the relative weight for each of the five stocks

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Use the Thompson One-Business School Edition Online Database to answer the following questions:

Question 1. Collect price and number of outstanding share data from the past 10 days on the following firms: Amazon (AMZN), Family Dollar (FDO), J.C. Penney (JCP), Target (TGT), and Walmart (WMT). Using this data, create a "retail sales stock index" by computing a value-weighted index. What is the overall percent change of the index over the 10 days?

Question 2. Using the market values for each stock on day 1, compute the relative weight for each of the five stocks. Which stocks has the largest weight and which stock has the smallest weight?

Question 3. Using the data from above, compute a price-weighted and unweighted stock index. What is the overall percent change on each index? How do the beheviors of the value-weighted, price-weighted and unweighted indexes compare over the 10 days?

Question 4. Compare the performance during the 10-day time frame of (1) the price-weighted retail sales stock index with the Dow Jones Industrial Average and (2) the value-weighted retail sales stock index with the S&P 500.

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