Financial Economics students, we've constantly been stressing the role of expectations about the future in pricing assets in financial markets. Tomorrow it is widely expected that AIB will have a large chunk of its ownership transferred into the hands of the Irish government. Consequently, the prices of Irish banking stocks are going south.
Click here to look at a live updating chart of AIB's share price against that of Bank of Ireland.
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