We explore the predictive relation between high-frequency investor sentiment and stock market returns. Our results are based on a proprietary dataset of high-frequency investor sentiment, which is computed based on a comprehensive textual analysis of sources from news wires, internet news...

We study the intertemporal risk-return tradeoff relations based on returns from 18 international markets. We find striking new empirical evidence that the inclusion of U.S. market returns significantly changes the estimated risk-return tradeoff relations in international markets from mostly...

When stocks are trading near their 52-week high, investors tend to have low expectation about their future returns. We contrast such expectations against firms' fundamental strength. For firms with strong fundamentals, we confirm that investors' expectations are too low, which is consistent with...

We study the portfolio performance of investment strategies that jointly apply both fundamental analysis and technical analysis. Compared with strategies that rely on one-dimensional fundamental or technical information, the integrated approach to fundamental and technical investing...

The authors examine how the co-movement between daily stock and Treasury bond returns varies with stock market uncertainty. They use the lagged implied volatility from equity index options to provide an objective, observable, and dynamic measure of stock market uncertainty. The authors find that...

The authors examine how the co-movement between daily stock and Treasury bond returns varies with stock market uncertainty. They use the lagged implied volatility from equity index options to provide an objective, observable, and dynamic measure of stock market uncertainty. The authors find that...

The authors study time-variation in the co-movements between daily stock and Treasury bond returns over 1986 to 2000. Their innovation is to examine whether variation in stock-bond return dynamics can be linked to non-return-based measures of stock market uncertainty, specifically the implied...

Prior literature on security class-action lawsuits generally treats the lawsuit filing day as the day when the event become public, in terms of evaluating event-study returns and informed shorting activity. However, in the days prior to the lawsuit filing, our investigation reveals that there...