Basic correlations

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You can't think of 5 basic correlations? This should be easy...

Find the correlation betweens stock price returns and political parties being in office.

Find the 3-year return of stocks when valuations (per normalized P/E ratios) are above and below the mean.

Find the return of stocks during the last three days of the month over the past ten years to see if the emergence of hedge funds have had a signficiant effect on trading (returns would be higher towards the end of the month to prevent bad consecutive months from ocurring).

Find the correlation between stock returns when the earnings yield of the S&P 500 (E/P) is lower than the yield on the 10-year bond. First look at this data over the past ten years, then look at it over the past 50 years. You'll be able to prove why anyone who believes in the Fed model is foolish.