Go to Yahoo! Finance and download the monthly stock prices for Apple (AAPL) from 1/1/2016 to 12/31/2021. (1) Sort the data in increasing order by date. (2) Calculate monthly returns using Adj. Close prices. Align the returns well with the dates. (3) Calculate the average monthly return and standard deviation of the monthly returns. (Hint: use either STDEV.S or STDEV to calculate the standard deviation.) On Excel Formulas included

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