Purpose - This paper aims to provide an important perspective to the predictive capacity of Organization of the Petroleum Exporting Countries (OPEC) meeting dates and production announcements for energy futures (crude oil West Texas Intermediate (WTI), gasoline reformulated gasoline blendstock...

A significant fraction of firms' financing occurs via public debt markets. Accordingly, we investigate whether financial statement characteristics and other variables that predict equity returns also predict corporate bond returns. Profitability, asset growth, and equity market capitalization...