Investments, 11th Edition (exclude Access Card)
Investments, 11th Edition (exclude Access Card)
11th Edition
ISBN: 9781260201543
Author: Zvi Bodie Professor; Alex Kane; Alan J. Marcus Professor
Publisher: McGraw-Hill Education
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IAAI (Institutional Advisors for All Inc.) is a consulting firm which provides services to all type of institutions and big investors regarding forecasting and determining long term trends through using normal analysis tools and models which determine how these trends should affect the performance of various investment. They have concluded that job creation and consumer confidence to inflation and interest rates and then incorporate the forecast movement in inflation rates into established model for explaining asset prices. They are primary concern about how the job creation and consumer confidence affect bond prices and how those should affect stock prices.

As per historical data there is positive trend in stock prices and this is factored into the forecast of overall economy that they deliver. They have considered fact that an upward trending stock market a positive economic indicator in itself; however they are not agrees it is a reason.

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IAAI

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IAAI is a service provider about forecasting the trends

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Consumer expectation index reflects consumers buying tendency in the upcoming time. When it is moving towards positive side, it also affect positively stock price.

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