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The Turn-of-the-quarter (TOQ) Effect is a calendar anomaly consisting in abnormal returns occurring in a specific time …+n). As many other anomalies, the TOQ Effect is not necessary persistent in time, so the interval [BQ-m; BQ+n] could … experience some changes. This paper explores such changes for the time intervals specific to the Turn-of-the-quarter (TOQ) Effect …
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Using novel earnings calendar data, we show that firms' advanced scheduling of earnings announcement dates foreshadows their earnings news. Firms that schedule later-than-expected announcement dates subsequently announce worse news than those scheduling earlier-than-expected announcement dates....
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In this paper, we investigate the day of the week and the month of the year effects in African stock markets, both in the Gregorian and the Hijri calendars. Specifically, we investigate Monday effect, Friday effect, January effect and Ramadan effect, from January 2009 to December 2019, using OLS...
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This paper finds the weekend effect to be a remarkably robust anomaly and refutes the widespread belief that the weekend effect is due to data-mining or a consequence of some unusual/rare events. Out-of-sample analysis finds both the mean and median return on Monday is lower than that on Friday...
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This study examines the influence of macroeconomic news on price discontinuities in the S&P 500 index futures. Results document a strong association between macro news and price jumps. Over three‐fourths of the price jumps between 8:30 am and 8:35 am and over three‐fifths of the jumps...
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This study examines the influence of macroeconomic news on price discontinuities in the S&P 500 index futures. Results document a strong association between macro news and price jumps. Over three‐fourths of the price jumps between 8:30 am and 8:35 am and over three‐fifths of the jumps...
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The well-known stock market adage "sell in May and go away" arose from long-term stock market seasonality in major financial markets around the globe. Kamastra, Kramer and Levy (2003) present evidence that Seasonal Affective Disorder causes this seasonality, as this condition has a profound...
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of the month effect, it records significantly higher returns during a relatively short time period around the end of the …
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Individual investors' demand for trading activity will vary over time according to their availability and desire to … selling of losses on Monday mornings, suggesting investors utilise spare time to process difficult trading decisions …
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In this paper, calendar seasonality patterns are examined from day-of-the-week effect across weekly patterns, monthly analysis and whole-year seasonal strategies such as Sell in May and Halloween effect. The analysis is done across six indices, DAX, MDAX, SDAX, Eurostoxx 50, Stoxx Europe Mid 200...
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