Real-Time Price Discovery in Global Stock, Bond and Foreign Exchange Markets

CREATES Research Paper No. 2007-20

38 Pages Posted: 23 Jun 2008

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Torben G. Andersen

Northwestern University - Kellogg School of Management; National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER); Aarhus University - CREATES

Tim Bollerslev

Duke University - Finance; Duke University - Department of Economics; National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER)

Francis X. Diebold

University of Pennsylvania - Department of Economics; National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER)

Clara Vega

Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve System

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Date Written: August 16, 2007

Abstract

Using a unique high-frequency futures dataset, we characterize the response of U.S., German and British stock, bond and foreign exchange markets to real-time U.S. macroeconomic news. We find that news produces conditional mean jumps; hence high-frequency stock, bond and exchange rate dynamics are linked to fundamentals. Equity markets, moreover, react differently to news depending on the stage of the business cycle, which explains the low correlation between stock and bond returns when averaged over the cycle. Hence our results qualify earlier work suggesting that bond markets react most strongly to macroeconomic news; in particular, when conditioning on the state of the economy, the equity and foreign exchange markets appear equally responsive. Finally, we also document important contemporaneous links across all markets and countries, even after controlling for the effects of macroeconomic news.

Keywords: Asset Pricing, Macroeconomic News Announcements, Financial Market Linkages, Market Microstructure, High-Frequency Data, Survey Data, Asset Return Volatility, Forecasting

JEL Classification: F3, F4, G1, C5

Suggested Citation

Andersen, Torben G. and Bollerslev, Tim and Diebold, Francis X. and Vega, Clara, Real-Time Price Discovery in Global Stock, Bond and Foreign Exchange Markets (August 16, 2007). CREATES Research Paper No. 2007-20, Available at SSRN: https://ssrn.com/abstract=1150085 or http://dx.doi.org/10.2139/ssrn.1150085

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