Macroeconomic News Announcements and the Role of Expectations: Evidence for US Bond, Stock and Foreign Exchange Markets

By Suk-Joong Kim, Michael McKenzie, R. Faff. 2005

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We investigate the impact of scheduled government announcements relating to six different macroeconomic variables on the risk and return of three major US financial markets. Our results suggest that these markets do not respond in any meaningful way, to the act of releasing information by the government. Rather, it is the news content of these announcements which cause the market to react. For the three markets tested, unexpected balance of trade news was found to have the greatest impact on the mean return in the foreign exchange market. In the bond market, news related to the internal economy was found to be important. For the US stock market, consumer and producer price information was found to be important. Finally, financial market volatility was found to have increased in response to some classes of announcement and fallen for others. In part, this result can be explained by differential policy feedback effects.

Subfields: Economics and Econometrics, Finance

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The Reaction of Asset Prices to Macroeconomic Announcements in New EU Markets: Evidence from Intraday Data (2009, background): “On the other hand, Kim and In (2002), Bomfim (2001), Kim et al. (2004), and Jones et al. (2005) utilize time-varying (GARCH) models.”
On the Volatility and Comovement of U.S. Financial Markets Around Macroeconomic News Announcements (2009, background): “The inclusion of dummies to control for day-of-the-week effects or the day-level clustering of other macroeconomic announcements (e.g., Jones et al., 1998; Kim et al., 2004) does not significantly affect our inference, either qualitatively or quantitatively.”