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Nordstrom: Calculate the market risk premium after finding the market rate.

Calculate the cost of equity for a particular firm (Nordstrom JWN) using the CAPM.  Their Beta is 1.25 and this is appropriate to use as the 10-year treasury bond rate which I found to be 3.68% as the risk free rate.  However, to calculate the market risk premium, I need to ascertain the market rate.  Where can I find this?


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