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A Description of the d<strong>at</strong>a s<strong>et</strong><br />

We have consi<strong>de</strong>red a s<strong>et</strong> of seventeen ass<strong>et</strong>s tra<strong>de</strong>d on the New York Stock Exchange: Applied M<strong>at</strong>erial,<br />

Coca-Cola, EMC, Exxon-Mobil, General Electric, General Motors, Hewl<strong>et</strong>t Packard, IBM, Intel, MCI<br />

WorldCom, Medtronic, Merck, Pfizer, Procter & Gambel, SBC Communic<strong>at</strong>ion, Texas Instrument, Wall<br />

Mart. These ass<strong>et</strong>s have been choosen since they are among the largest capitaliz<strong>at</strong>ions of the NYSE <strong>at</strong> the<br />

time of writing.<br />

The d<strong>at</strong>as<strong>et</strong> comes from the Center for Research in Security Prices (CRSP) d<strong>at</strong>abase and covers the time<br />

interval from the end of January 1995 to the end of December 2000, which represents exactly 1500 trading<br />

days. The main st<strong>at</strong>istical fe<strong>at</strong>ures of the compagnies composing the d<strong>at</strong>as<strong>et</strong> are presented in the table 5.<br />

Note the high kurtosis of each distribution of r<strong>et</strong>urns as well as the large values of the observed minimum and<br />

maximum r<strong>et</strong>urns compared with the standard <strong>de</strong>vi<strong>at</strong>ions, th<strong>at</strong> clearly un<strong>de</strong>rlines the non-Gaussian behavior<br />

of these ass<strong>et</strong>s.<br />

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