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1. Three form of market efficiency are strong form of market efficiency which will be advocating that all the publicly available information and privately available information have been discounted into the stock price.one can never beat the market in such form of efficiency.
Semi strong form of market efficiency will be advocating that publicly available information has been discounted into the stock price but privately available information have not been discounted into the stock price so there is an option of making an excess rate of return through insider trading.
Weak form of market efficiency will be advocating that historical price and past trends will be reflecting stock price and they cannot be used for future prediction of the stock price.
it is important for the market to be informationally efficient because it will help in rational decision making as well as prevention of fraud and rational investing.
a) Explain clearly the three forms of market efficiency. Why is it important for the market...
Explain the three forms of market efficiency under the efficient markets hypothesis.