Forces That Move Stock Prices
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- Regulatory Compliance,
- Valuation
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- Factor,
- Finance,
- Financial Accounting,
- Investment,
- Investopedia,
- Investor,
- Stock,
- Stock Price
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- Investopedia
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Overview: Different types of investors depend on different factors. Short-term investors and traders tend to incorporate and may even prioritize technical factors. Long-term investors prioritize fundamentals and recognize that technical factors play an important role. Investors who believe strongly in fundamentals can reconcile themselves to technical forces with the following popular argument: technical factors and market sentiment often overwhelm the short-run, but fundamentals will set the stock price in the long-run. In the meantime, one can expect more exciting developments in the area of behavioral finance since traditional financial theories cannot seem to explain everything that happens in the market.
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Format: HTML | Date: Oct 2004 | Pages: 4
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