This article examines the interaction between order imbalance, stock returns, volatility and volume dynamics during Asian financial crisis using intraday data of 418 stocks traded on the Stock Exchange of Thailand (SET) from January 1996 to October 2003. The inverse relationship between the past...

Price movements in industrial metals such as copper and aluminum predict stock returns. Increasing industrial metal prices are good news for equity markets in recessions and bad news in expansions. A one standard deviation increase in industrial metal returns predicts a price drop of one and a...

We show that the previously documented predictability of macroeconomic and technical variables for market returns is also evident in individual stock returns. Technical variables generate better predictability on firms with higher limits to arbitrage (smaller, illiquid, volatile firms), while...