In this study, we explore intra-industry information transfer of quarterly earnings announcements for six major developed markets including the United States. Using an event study methodology, we find that the average cumulative abnormal returns (CARs) of peer firms exhibit a positive and...

We develop a return variance decomposition model to separate the role of different types of information and noise in stock price movements. We disentangle four components: market-wide information, private firm-specific information revealed through trading, firm-specific information revealed...

We investigate the effects of macroeconomic announcements made in the United States on trading activity of stocks listed in Borsa Istanbul. The influence of these releases on the selected variables are an important source of information for market participants. Results show a clear negative...

This study finds that market's underreaction to good news is a driver of Gutierrez and Kelly's (2008) weekly momentum returns. By employing a dataset of 10.1 million news items in four regions (the U.S., Europe, Japan, and Asia Pacific), we find that stocks having important and positive news...

In this study, we test a set of country macro sentiment indexes that measure the trailing sentiment on both scheduled and unscheduled economic and geopolitical news events. We develop a cross-over strategy in the FX market based on short to long-term news sentiment inflection points covering the...

In this study, we analyze the effects of sovereign credit rating reviews on national stock market performances in GIIPS and BRIC countries during the European Sovereign Debt Crisis of 2009-2013. Through an event study, we test the Null Hypothesis that cumulative abnormal returns on national...

Through this research, we find that the asymmetric volatility phenomenon is reversed in the Shanghai Stock Exchange during bull markets. That is, volatility increases more with good news than with bad news. This evidence is inconsistent with the US markets. Further examination of this phenomenon...

We analyze the effect of scheduled macroeconomic news on intraday market sentiment by comparing the sentiment of the announcement date with that of the non-announcement date. The announcement of the macroeconomic indicators itself does not change the market sentiment, but the direction of the...

Using high-frequency price and volume data from several large exchanges, we show that FOMC and CPI announcements have a massive impact on Bitcoin's realized volatility and volume. However, this effect is a recent phenomenon, which started as inflation rose at the beginning of 2021. We also...

Using international data on equity loans and financial news stories across 29 countries, I find that short sellers’ informational advantage comes mostly from their superior ability to process public news. With a novel method to estimate the amount of shorting from outstanding equity loans, I...