We identify crucial events during the European sovereign debt crisis and investigate their impact on the euro currency. In particular, we analyse how specific announcements related to vulnerable Eurozone member states, European Central Bank (ECB) actions, and credit rating downgrades affect the...

We investigate the behaviour of bid-ask spread components around the U.S. Federal Funds Rate announcements for a sample of cross-listed firms in Canada and in the U.S. We use transaction level data to decompose the spread into its three components, namely, information asymmetry, order...

This paper documents that speed is crucially important for high frequency trading strategies based on U.S. macroeconomic news releases. Using order level data of the highly liquid S&P500 ETF traded on NASDAQ from January 6, 2009, to December 12, 2011, we find that a delay of 300 milliseconds (1...