Notice in Table that the stocks with the lowest standard deviations are Anheuser-Busch, Coca-Cola, Archer Daniels Midland,
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Company Anheuser-Busch Coca-Cola Wendy's International Archer Daniels Midland General Motors General Electric Merck Nordstronm Wal-Mart American Airlines (AMR) Advanced Micro Devices Average for all 11 stocks Std Deviation (%) 16.1 22.6 23.3 23.5 26.0 32.1 32.7 38.1 44.7 47.8 56.4 33.0 Ave. Return (%) 19.2 12.1 11.8 7.6 8.3 20.3 17.8 14.3 22.7 10.0 17.6 14.7
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