Returns (%)
Date	Value Weighted Market		Shoe Company
Jan-02	1.5724		6.3000
Feb-02	2.0840		1.9385
Mar-02	3.5574		2.0465
Apr-02	6.1664		11.2769
May-02	0.8401		0.6496
Jun-02	7.1641		0.1431
Jul-02	7.9204		8.2599
Aug-02	0.4762		12.5343
Sep-02	10.9334		0.0996
Oct-02	8.7780		9.1004
Nov-02	5.7385		5.1335
Dec-02	5.9013		0.5305
Jan-03	2.6878		0.0078
Feb-03	1.4993		3.9442
Mar-03	0.8051		11.1981
Apr-03	8.2440		4.0160
May-03	5.2503		4.5156
Jun-03	1.2628		4.3639
Jul-03	1.5951		3.3310
Aug-03	1.9486		10.0153
Sep-03	1.2223		6.8128
Oct-03	5.5394		5.0530
Nov-03	0.8384		5.0815
Dec-03	5.1651		1.9958
Jan-04	1.7639		1.6073
Feb-04	1.2698		5.1150
Mar-04	1.5798		6.5638
Apr-04	1.6506		7.6267
May-04	1.2332		1.2169
Jun-04	1.7675		6.6865
Jul-04	3.3546		4.1516
Aug-04	0.2238		3.4101
Sep-04	0.8910		4.7961
Oct-04	1.3063		3.0435
Nov-04	3.9628		3.8685
Dec-04	3.2279		7.2451
Jan-05	2.6322		4.7374
Feb-05	1.8057		0.0801
Mar-05	1.9766		4.0847
Apr-05	2.1631		8.1296
May-05	2.8461		6.8061
Jun-05	0.0426		5.3955
Jul-05	3.3586		3.5672
Aug-05	1.2185		6.0752
Sep-05	0.4540		3.5803
Oct-05	1.9468		2.6815
Nov-05	3.5271		1.1839
Dec-05	0.2371		1.7404
Jan-06	2.2743		7.0241
Feb-06	0.0479		6.9277
Mar-06	0.8548		1.9961
Apr-06	0.9269		4.1375
May-06	3.2296		2.2287
Jun-06	0.2487		0.9470
Jul-06	0.142		2.9470
Aug-06	1.9858		1.9260
Sep-06	2.1318		8.5609
Oct-06	2.7899		4.5196
Nov-06	1.5416		7.2056
Dec-06	0.9100		0.1344

Use the accompanying data to estimate the beta ofnShoe Company

stock using linear regression.

The beta is ........ enter your response here.

(Round to four decimal places.)