This study examines the relationship between U.S. monetary policy changes and financial market reactions; in particular, the fluctuations in interest rates and exchange rates for the U.S., Britain, Canada, France, Germany, and Japan are related to changes in the U.S. Federal Reserve discount...

Reviews previous research on contrarian investment strategy (i.e. buying “losers” and selling “winners”) and analyses the results of applying the strategy to US stocks 1928‐1992. Explains the methodology and presents the results, which show no statistically significant holding period...

Moving average trading strategies are examined for trading ten major currencies during the 1997‐2001 time period. Both a traditional trend‐following moving average cross over strategy and a contrarian strategy are tested. Following a simple moving average cross over out performed, on...

Discusses research ideas on the distinctions between data, information and knowledge, the categories of knowledge and knowledge‐processing activities in Holsapple and Whinston’s (HW’s) taxonomy (1987, 1988a, 1988b), and their application to markets and the activities of the firm. Describes...