We examine the influence of investor conferences on firms' stock liquidity. We find that firms participating in conferences experience a 1.4% to 2.8% increase in stock liquidity compared to non-conference firms. Consistent with investor conferences improving firm visibility, the increase in...

We examine the performance of various types of technical trading rules in the emerging Cyprus Stock Market (CSE). Furthermore, we examine the predictability of daily returns for the CSE with respect to the extent that the technical analysis method of moving averages can win the buy-and-hold...

Purpose – The purpose of this paper is to examine securities analyst independence in China's capital market and the effect on analyst independence of institutional investors' shareholding and separation between control rights and cash flow rights of ultimate...

One highly documented method to test a capital market for weak form efficiency is to identify the return predictability of technical trading rules in that market. Studies on these tests are fewer in number in emerging markets than that of in developed markets and most of the tests have drawn...

This paper shows that analyst recommendations aggregated at the country level predict international stock market returns. A trading strategy based on past country-level recommendations yields an abnormal return of around 0.9 percent per month. Aggregate analyst recommendations also predict...

An investor in the stock market would be interested in analysing the stock price movements. Prices in the stock market fluctuate due to continuous buying and selling in the market. There are basically two approaches used in analysing the share price movements. They are fundamental approach and...

We set out in this study is to investigate the impact of Google search volume on stock prices around periods of recommendation revision announcements made by securities firms in the Taiwan stock market. Our results reveal that for upgrade announcements, the Internet searches that are initiated...

This research represents the union of two main studies: the first one focused on the analysis of the CAPE Ratio, also known as the Cyclically Adjusted Price-Earnings ratio, a valuation measure introduced by the Nobel Prize Robert Shiller, and the second one focused on the predictability of the...

This study shows that (1) Australian analysts are optimistic in their forecasts and underreact to new information, (2) the continuous disclosure (CD) regime has a negative impact on forecast optimism and dispersion, (3) analyst forecast bias is associated with certain firm characteristics, (4)...

This study examines the relative importance of percentage change in price-to-earnings ratio (PE), percentage change in dividend yield (DY) and change in aggregate Tobin's q ratio (∆TBQ) in forecasting returns on the S&P 500 (SP). The results from the variance decomposition analysis of...