This paper compares the trading patterns of amateurs to that of professional investors during the days following the weekend. The comparison is based on all the daily transactions of a sample of both amateurs and professionally managed investors in a major brokerage house in Israel between...

Recent financial literature shows a spillover effect from the stock market to the bond market, and strong investor sentiment regarding the stock market. In this paper, we studied cross-market sentiment and returns from stocks to bonds. We analyzed the effect that stock returns, volatility, and...

In present study, we contribute to the discussion on international stock market correlations, by analyzing interdependencies between stock returns in US and Israeli stock exchanges. In particular, we concentrate on the original feature of Tel Aviv Stock Exchange (TASE) where the trading week...