Click on Economic Research; click on Fred; click on Monthly Interest Rates; and then click on Bank Prime Loan Rate Changes—Historic Dates of Changes and0 Rates—1929.
1. What was the prime interest rate in 1934?
2. What is the highest the prime interest rate has been? When was that?
3. What has been the highest prime interest rate since you were born?
4. What is the present prime interest rate?
5. Over the past 10 years, what was the lowest prime interest rate? What has been the highest prime interest rate over the past 10 years?
Now go to Barra’s click on Research + Indexes and then on S&P/Barra U.S. Equity Indexes.
6. What was the average annual 10-year return on large-cap stocks, as measured by growth in the S&P 500 (annualized 10-year return)? How does this compare to your answers in question 5?
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