The reaction of the WSE to U.S. employment news announcements

Stock markets react to various information. One of the most important information concerns macroeconomic data because it describes the state of the economy. The U.S. is the world’s largest economy and thus American macroeconomic news announcements strongly affects European stock markets. In this pa...

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Main Authors: Milena Suliga, Tomasz Wójtowicz
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Language:English
Published: AGH UNIVERSITY PRESS 2014-03-01
Series:Managerial Economics
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Online Access:https://journals.agh.edu.pl/manage/article/view/1001
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description Stock markets react to various information. One of the most important information concerns macroeconomic data because it describes the state of the economy. The U.S. is the world’s largest economy and thus American macroeconomic news announcements strongly affects European stock markets. In this paper we investigate the reaction of stock prices on the Warsaw Stock Exchange to values of macroeconomic indicators published in the Employment Report by the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics. We study the impact of macroeconomic indicators separately as well as interrelations between them. It allows us to specify which of the indicators under study is the most informative. We analyze the impact of information about the state of the labor market in the U.S. in the period from January 2004 to November 2012. In order to describe duration, direction and significance of the impact we apply the event study analysis to intraday returns of WIG – the main index of WSE.
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Managerial Economics
event study
macroeconomic announcements
unemployment
nonfarm payrolls
title The reaction of the WSE to U.S. employment news announcements
title_full The reaction of the WSE to U.S. employment news announcements
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title_short The reaction of the WSE to U.S. employment news announcements
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macroeconomic announcements
unemployment
nonfarm payrolls
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