Create a financial portfolio that will track and analyze its performance

• Please analyze the market you choose

• What economic factors are driving the market? Which markets are the most successful, etc.

You can use any of the markets for your analysis. You can use the Dow Jones Industrial Average and its component stocks or Yahoo Finance. Click on Dow and you will see approximately 30 component stocks.

Choose at least five stocks to monitor. Chart the closing prices at closing each week for the indices you use

The Presentation should answer all of the following questions:

What do you think caused the changes in the market and the indices?

What has happened over each week that was consistent with what you have learned about security investments in this course?

Did the stock price react quickly to news?

You may include comments or additional information in the notes section of the slide presentation.

Part 2 is a 4-6 page analysis of your findings of the foreign markets.

This part should address all of the following questions fully:

• What economic factors were driving the foreign markets?
• What do you think caused the changes in the markets?
• Did you think the markets reacted quickly to news? From your Unit 5 PPT presentation what was the return on the portfolio and how did it compare to the global markets?
• Which stocks in your portfolio went up and which went down, and why?
• How were the stocks in your portfolio affected by the changes in the market, and by events in the companies or industries?