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1. You have gathered information about the expected returns and standard deviations of two stocks, which is given in the table below: Oracle Intel Expected Return 12.00% 14.50% Standard Deviation 45.00% 40.00% C. Now assume that a hedge fund has created a portfolio using just two stocks. It has shorted $35,000,000 worth of Oracle stock and has purchased $85,000,000 of Intel stock. The correlation between Oracle's and Intel's returns is +0.65. What could be the motivation for the strategy? What is the expected return of the hedge fund's portfolio? 1 d. What is the standard deviation of the hedge fund's portfolio