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The Information Content of Daily Market Indicators

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  19 October 2009

John T. Emery
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The theory of efficient capital markets indicates that the prices in an efficient market fully reflect all available information. In much of the literature on efficient markets the term fully reflect is made operational with the assumption that the conditions for market equilibrium can be expressed as expected returns. Fama suggests that most expected return theories can be expressed in the following manner:

(1)

where — adopting Fama's notation — E is the expected value operator; Pjt is the price of security j at time t; Pj,t+1 is its price at t+1; is the one-period percentage return (Pj,t+1|Pjt); φt is a general symbol to represent whatever set of information is assumed to be fully reflected in the price at time t; and the tildes indicate that Pj,t+1 and rj,t+1 are random variables at t.

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Research Article
Information
Journal of Financial and Quantitative Analysis , Volume 8 , Issue 2 , March 1973 , pp. 183 - 190
Copyright
Copyright © School of Business Administration, University of Washington 1973

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6 Ibid., p. 75.

7 Since xt Ln xt is an increasing function, the first day is given the nth weight, the second day the n−lth weight, etc.