Releases of key macroeconomic indicators are closely watched by financial markets. We investigate the role of expectation dispersion and economic uncertainty for the stock-market reaction to indicator releases. We find that the strength of the financial market response to news decreases with the...

We enhance the precision of predicting daily stock market price volatility using the maximum overlapping discrete wavelet transform (MODWT) spectral model and two learning approaches: the heuristic gradient descent (FS.HGD) and hybrid neural fuzzy inference system (HyFIS). The FS.HGD approach...