Market

Each month, This Month in Real Estate provides expert opinion and analysis on real estate trends across the nation.

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Pastor Timothy Neptune (First Baptist Church of Marco Island) discusses the realities of our current economic crisis with Steve Meyers of Grainbelt Commodities. Global Perspective is a weekly study held at FBC Marco which focuses on the world’s current events and ties them with the truths and prophecies found in scripture. Studies are held every Sunday night at 6:00 p.m. For more information, including the complete viewing of each study, visit us at www.fbcmarco.com

Duration : 0:10:19

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Financial Markets (ECON 252)

Several theories in finance relate to stock price analysis and prediction. The efficient markets hypothesis states that stock prices for publicly-traded companies reflect all available information. Prices adjust to new information instantaneously, so it is impossible to “beat the market.” Furthermore, the random walk theory asserts that changes in stock prices arise only from unanticipated new information, and so it is impossible to predict the direction of stock prices. Using statistical tools, we can attempt to test the hypotheses and to predict future stock prices. These tests show that efficient markets theory is a half-truth: it is difficult but not impossible for some people to beat the market.

Complete course materials are available at the Open Yale Courses website: http://open.yale.edu/courses

This course was recorded in Spring 2008.

Duration : 1:8:18

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