StockChanges {Lock5Data}

Stock Changes

Description

Stock price change for a sample of stocks from the S&P 500 (August 2-6, 2010)

Format

A dataset with 50 observations on the following variable.

SPChange	Change in stock price (in dollars)

Details

A random sample of 50 companies from Standard & Poor's index of 500 companies was selected. The change in the price of the stock (in dollars) over the 5-day period from August 2 - 6, 2010 was recorded for each company in the sample.

Source

Data obtained from http://money.cnn.com/data/markets/sandp/