market inefficiency
Definition
A condition in which current prices do not reflect all the publicly available information about a security, such as when some individuals get certain information before others, or when some individuals do not properly analyze the available information.
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Related terms:
selective disclosure, inside information, index arbitrage, arbitrage house
'market inefficiency' appears in the definitions of these other terms on BusinessDictionary.com:
market failure
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