In the Context of the Evaluation of the Efficient Markets

question 5

Multiple Choice

In the context of the evaluation of the efficient markets hypothesis, pricing anomalies refer to

• A)the existence of trading strategies that appear to have offered above-normal returns.
• B)the gap between actual and expected prices.
• C)the spread between the price at which a broker will purchase stock from an investor and the price at which the broker will sell stock to an investor.
• D)the difficulty in practice of computing stock prices on the basis of expectations of future dividends.

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