We analyze the impact of the pro-Russian conflict on stock returns in Russia and the Ukraine during the period November … Internet search for conflict-related news. We find that intensification of the conflict reduces Russian and Ukrainian stock … returns. The (de-)escalation of the pro-Russian conflict in the Ukraine accounts for a total variation of 6.5 (8.7) percentage …

measured by different indices. The impact on stock returns was assessed by examining how news reports on the reform affected … returns during the 1970s. Only the most important news had a significant impact on the returns. Otherwise there were no big …

States, Estonia, Latvia and Lithuania. Paper [I] studies the impact of news from the Moscow and New York stock exchanges on … asymmetries in the conditional mean and variance functions. We find that news from New York has stronger effects on returns in … influenced by high-risk shocks from Moscow. Riga does not seem to be affected by news arriving from abroad. Paper [II] suggests a …

This paper analyzes the impact of economic news, that is, the difference between economic announcements and what was … financial markets to digest and react to news. Finally, by using a U.S. and a European economic announcement and a wide range of … financial data leads to a much bigger and more significant news announcement effect over previous studies that used end-of day …

bond yields to news. The period covered is from January 1994 to September 1997. We find that announcements about US … economic news have had a large impact on yields in Australia – especially bond yields. Of the domestic announcements, the …, the results also suggest some consistency of response to news in the fixed-interest market in Australia. …