This document contains material that supplements our manuscript, entitled Latent Semantic Analysis of the FOMC Statements, which is scheduled to appear in the Review of Accounting and Finance. Specifically, it provides two lengthy appendices (Appendix A and Appendix B) that are mentioned in the...

This paper offers new evidence on informed trading around merger and acquisition announcements from the UK equity and options market. The analysis suggests that in about 25–33% of events there is abnormal option trading volume during the month that precedes the announcement. Such evidence is...