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

51 Pages Posted: 30 Jun 2004

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Torben G. Andersen

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

Clara Vega

Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve System

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)

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Date Written: June 28, 2004

Abstract

We characterize the response of U.S., German and British stock, bond and foreign exchange markets to real-time U.S. macroeconomic news. Our analysis is based on a unique data set of high frequency futures returns for each of the markets. We find that news surprises produce conditional mean jumps; hence high-frequency stock, bond and exchange rate dynamics are linked to fundamentals. The details of the linkages are particularly intriguing as regards equity markets. We show that equity markets react differently to the same news depending on the state of the economy, with bad news having a positive impact during expansions and the traditionally-expected negative impact during recessions. We rationalize this by temporal variation in the competing cash flow and discount rate effects for equity valuation. This finding helps explain the time-varying correlation between stock and bond returns, and the relatively small equity market news effect when averaged across expansions and recessions. Lastly, relying on the pronounced heteroskedasticity in the high-frequency data, we document important contemporaneous linkages across all markets and countries over-and-above the direct news announcement effects.

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 Vega, Clara and Bollerslev, Tim and Diebold, Francis X., Real-Time Price Discovery in Stock, Bond and Foreign Exchange Markets (June 28, 2004). Available at SSRN: https://ssrn.com/abstract=560642 or http://dx.doi.org/10.2139/ssrn.560642

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