Thirty year treasury note at the end of every year

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Compute a 5-year moving average and weighted moving average.

A. I see a lot of moving-average charts in stock reports. What is the moving-average method and how is it useful?

B. What does weighting add to the usefulness of moving averages and how is it done?

C. The yield on a 30-year treasury note at the end of each year since 1990 is recorded below.

Compute a five-year (1) moving average and (2) weighted moving average using weights of .1, .1, .2, .3, and .3, respectively. Describe the trend in yield both in both narrative and graphical form.

1990	8061
1991	8.14
1992	7.67
1993	6.59
1994	7.37
1995	6088
1996	6071
1997	6061
1998	5.58
1999	5.87
2000	5.94
2001	5.49
2002	5043

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