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Published online 9 January 2003 | Nature | doi:10.1038/news030106-9
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Market law found?
Supply and demand follow same pattern for all firms.
Researchers in Italy and the United States believe they have finally uncovered the universal behaviour that governs how supply and demand create stock prices in economic markets.
That there is a law of supply and demand has been the foundation stone of economics since 1776, when Adam Smith wrote Wealth of Nations.
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