INVESTMENTS(LL)W/CONNECT
11th Edition
ISBN: 9781260433920
Author: Bodie
Publisher: McGraw-Hill Publishing Co.
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Chapter 11, Problem 6PS
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To determine: Comment on the statement whether the stock market does not know how to prices, and hence the stock prices are highly variable.
Introduction: The marketplace where the securities, bonds, forex securities, derivatives and such other are traded, is called the Financial Markets.
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If most participants in the stock market do not follow what is happening to monetary aggregates, prices of common stock will not fully reflect information about them. Is this statement true? Explain your answer
True or False: Technical Analysis (the practice of analyzing past stock price and volume data in order to predict future stock price behavior) would be useless under any form of the Efficient Market Hypothesis (EMH).
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II. Determine what form of the theory of efficient market is being described in each
item. Write W for weak form, SE for semi-strong form, ST_ for strong form.
_4. The stock prices already reflect all publicly available data.
5. The stock prices already reflect all past market trading data.
_6. The technical analysis will not give new information in this form.
7. The fundamental analysis will not give new information in this form.
8. Both the fundamental and technical analysis will not give new information.
_9. The stock pricess show historical information which may or may not include
inside information.
_10. The stodk prices already reflect all publicly available date such as any
product, financial statement, etc.
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