Corporate Finance
Corporate Finance
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ISBN: 9781259918940
Author: Ross, Stephen A.
Publisher: Mcgraw-hill Education,
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Efficient Markets A hundred years ago or so, companies did not compile annual reports. Even if you owned stock in a particular company, you were unlikely to be allowed to sec the balance sheet and income statement for the company. Assuming the market is semistrong form efficient what does this say about market efficiency then compared to now?

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