What Moves Stock Prices? The Role of News, Noise, and Information

Review of Financial Studies, Forthcoming

65 Pages Posted: 29 Jan 2018 Last revised: 18 Nov 2021

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Jonathan Brogaard

University of Utah - David Eccles School of Business

Huong Nguyen

Faculty of Finance, University of Economics, The University of Danang, Vietnam

Tālis J. Putniņš

University of Technology Sydney (UTS); Digital Finance CRC; Stockholm School of Economics, Riga

Eliza Wu

The University of Sydney - Business School; Financial Research Network (FIRN)

Date Written: October 5, 2021

Abstract

We develop a return variance decomposition model to separate the role of different types of information and noise in stock price movements. We disentangle four components: market-wide information, private firm-specific information revealed through trading, firm-specific information revealed through public sources, and noise. Overall, 31% of the return variance is from noise, 37% from public firm-specific information, 24% from private firm-specific information, and 8% from market-wide information. Since the mid-1990s, there has been a dramatic decline in noise and an increase in firm-specific information, consistent with increasing market efficiency.

Keywords: variance decomposition, firm-specific information, market-wide information, stock return synchronicity

JEL Classification: G12, G14, G15

Suggested Citation

Brogaard, Jonathan and Nguyen, Huong and Putnins, Talis J. and Wu, Eliza, What Moves Stock Prices? The Role of News, Noise, and Information (October 5, 2021). Review of Financial Studies, Forthcoming, Available at SSRN: https://ssrn.com/abstract=3105862 or http://dx.doi.org/10.2139/ssrn.3105862

Jonathan Brogaard

University of Utah - David Eccles School of Business ( email )

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Huong Nguyen

Faculty of Finance, University of Economics, The University of Danang, Vietnam ( email )

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Talis J. Putnins (Contact Author)

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Eliza Wu

The University of Sydney - Business School ( email )

University of Sydney
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Sydney, NSW 2006
Australia

Financial Research Network (FIRN)

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Queensland
Australia

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