If the financial markets are semistrong form efficient, then:
a only the most talented analysts can determine the true value of a security.
b. only individuals with private information have a marketplace advantage.
c. technical analysis provides the best tool to use to gain a marketplace advantage.
d. no one individual has an advantage in the marketplace.
e every security offers the same rate of return.

The former chairman of the federal reserve, alan greenspan, used the term "irrational exuberance" in 1996 to describe the high levels of optimism among stock market investors at the time. stock market indexes such as the s& p composite price index were at an all-time high. some commentators believed that the fed should intervene to slow the expansion of the economy. why would central banks want to clamp down when the economy is growing? a. to block the formation of unsustainable speculative asset bubbles. b. to curtail excessive profits in the banking system. c. to prevent inflationary forces from gathering momentum. d. all of the above. e. a and c only.