The issue of gold and silver price manipulation, in particular price suppression, is examined. We use a mixture of normal approach to decompose the returns into abnormal and control samples. Price suppression is a form of market manipulation of the runs type where longer negative runs with lower...

Seasonality has long been documented in the context of equity market returns, but only recently has been tested for in the residential real estate market. This paper argues, in line with the previous research in this area, that no month should, on average, demonstrate superior (or inferior)...

We use a sample survey to analyse the capital budgeting practices of Australian listed companies. We find that NPV, IRR and Payback are the most popular evaluation techniques. Real options techniques have gained a toehold in capital budgeting but are not yet part of the mainstream. Discounting...

The compass rose pattern in financial data may indicate the presence of a nonlinear, possibly chaotic, data generating mechanism. Analysis reveals that over four equivalent subperiods, from 1996 to 2015, the compass rose pattern in gold returns fades. This feature provides an opportunity to...

We show that the statistical properties of gold are negatively correlated with equities and that including Gold in a portfolio will provide diversification benefits. As there is no consensus on the proportion of gold that should be included in a strategic portfolio allocation we propose a visual...

Establishing the relation between oil price movements and macroeconomic performance is of great importance for firms and policymakers, alike. Prior studies established this relation using the assumption that the long-run relation is intertemporally constant. However, there is much recent...

This paper identifies several stylised facts relating to the volatility and price discovery process from eight cryptocurrencies utilising an empirical analysis of intra-day trading data to uncover four main results. First, cryptocurrencies exhibit weekend-volatility effects while intra-day...

Previous research has identified that investors place more emphasis on technical analysis than fundamental analysis, however the research has largely been confined to daily data and stock market indices. This paper studies whether intraday technical trading rules produce significant payoffs in...

Despite continued advances in the state of the art, stress tests predict failure less often than would seem reasonable. This paper argues that even if a stress test produces a good estimate for aggregate losses, failing to account for unevenness of losses could easily lead to an under-estimate...

Early analysis of Bitcoin concluded that it did not meet the economic conditions to be classified as a currency. Since this analysis interest in bitcoin has increased substantially. We investigate whether the introduction of futures trading in bitcoin is able to resolve the issues that stopped...