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According to the efficient market hypothesis,financial markets fluctuate daily because they:


A) are inefficient.
B) slowly react to new information.
C) are continually reacting to new information.
D) offer tremendous arbitrage opportunities.
E) only reflect historical information.

F) A) and D)
G) None of the above

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Insider trading does not offer any advantages if the financial markets are:


A) weak form efficient.
B) semiweak form efficient.
C) semistrong form efficient.
D) strong form efficient.
E) inefficient.

F) A) and B)
G) B) and E)

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Explain why it is that in an efficient market,investments have an expected NPV of zero.

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In an efficient market,prices are "fair"...

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The hypothesis that market prices reflect all publicly available information is called _____ form efficiency.


A) open
B) strong
C) semistrong
D) weak
E) stable

F) A) and D)
G) C) and D)

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Your best friend works in the finance office of the Delta Corporation.You are aware that this friend trades Delta stock based on information he overhears in the office.You know that this information is not known to the general public.Your friend continually brags to you about the profits he earns trading Delta stock.Based on this information,you would tend to argue that the financial markets are at best _____ form efficient.


A) weak
B) semiweak
C) semistrong
D) strong
E) perfect

F) C) and D)
G) A) and B)

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Suppose that firms with unexpectedly high earnings earn abnormally high returns for several months after the announcement.This would be evidence of:


A) efficient markets in the weak form.
B) inefficient markets in the weak form.
C) efficient markets in the semistrong form.
D) inefficient markets in the semistrong form.
E) inefficient markets in the strong form.

F) B) and C)
G) A) and B)

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If you excel in analyzing the future outlook of firms,you would prefer that the financial markets be ____ form efficient so that you can have an advantage in the marketplace.


A) weak
B) semiweak
C) semistrong
D) strong
E) perfect

F) B) and D)
G) B) and C)

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Individuals that continually monitor the financial markets seeking mispriced securities:


A) tend to make substantial profits on a daily basis.
B) tend to make the markets more efficient.
C) are never able to find a security that is temporarily mispriced.
D) are always quite successful using only well-known public information as their basis of evaluation.
E) are always quite successful using only historical price information as their basis of evaluation.

F) A) and C)
G) B) and E)

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The market price of a stock moves or fluctuates daily.This fluctuation is:


A) inconsistent with the semistrong efficient market hypothesis because prices should be stable.
B) inconsistent with the weak form efficient market hypothesis because all past information should be priced in.
C) consistent with the semistrong form of the efficient market hypothesis because as new information arrives daily prices will adjust to it.
D) consistent with the strong form because prices are controlled by insiders.
E) None of the above.

F) A) and C)
G) A) and B)

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Ritter's study of Initial Public Offerings (IPOs) showed that the post offering stock performance was:


A) less than the control group by about 2% in the five years following the IPO.
B) incorrectly priced at issuance because over the next five years the abnormal returns were greater than zero on average.
C) immaterial to the pricing of the IPO because future market performance is unknown at issuance.
D) equal across IPOs,irrespective of risk or which year they were issued.
E) All of the above.

F) A) and D)
G) A) and C)

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