decompositions of unexpected stock returns. The evidence proves robust and consistently indicates intensified equity market linkage …

commonality in dealers’ activity is a powerful driver of CDS comovements, over and above fundamental similarities between … countries, including default, liquidity, and macro factors. We posit that the mechanism causing the excess correlation is the …

standard and international trade. The estimation results allow us to formulate some interesting policy conclusions. …

This research has examined the personal capital investments and returns of a group of TAFE Diploma of Community Work … returns, although the research was not constrained by these pre-determined themes. The use of grounded theory data analysis … investments and returns. Consequently, the qualitative analysis of the in-depth interviews has revealed a broader range of themes …

. In both portfolios each stock is given an equal weight of 25 percent. The returns for each stock are computed over a six …-month holding period, and the portfolio returns are simply a weighted average of the individual security returns. This paper … contests). Furthermore, the returns for the expert portfolios have outpaced those of the Dow Jones Industrial Average (DJIA) on …

The paper examines empirical returns from holding thirty- and ninety-day call and put positions,and the forecasting … biased and inefficient predictor ofrealized volatility, with bias most prominent in live cattle. While significant returns ….However, the returns from selling live cattle puts are persistent, and evidence from straddlereturns identifies that the market …

’ stock returns. Theoretical aspects of macroeconomic variables impact on stock returns are presented in the first part of the … impact of 7 macroeconomic factors on 16 sectors’ stock returns for the period from March 2002 to February 2011 on monthly … reveal that macroeconomic factors affect different sectors’ stock returns in different manner. Furthermore the results …