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efficient market

 
 
noun [S] ECONOMICS

Definition

a market where all the important information is available to everybody involved at the same time, and prices change immediately according to this information: In an efficient market, prices reflect all available information, and so past prices can tell you nothing useful about whether future prices will go up or down.
(Definition of efficient market noun from the Cambridge Business English Dictionary © Cambridge University Press)

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