You Discover You Can Make Above Normal Returns If You

question 267

Multiple Choice

You discover you can make above normal returns if you buy oil-company stocks just before noon on any given trading day and then sell them immediately before the market closes that same day.
Which of the following describes this event?

• A) This would not be a violation of market efficiency.
• B) This would be a violation of weak form efficiency.
• C) This would be a violation of semi-strong form efficiency.
• D) This would be a violation of strong form efficiency.
• E) This would be a violation of all forms of market efficiency.

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