We examine how weather conditions near a firm's major institutional investors affect stock market reactions to firms' earnings announcements. We find that unpleasant weather experienced by institutional investors leads to more delayed market responses to earnings news. Moreover, unpleasant...

This paper uses a novel method to assess the timing of corporate share repurchases by examiningabnormal returns after firms stop repurchasing shares. This method reveals several new findings.First, repurchasing firms only experience positive abnormal returns after they stop repurchasingshares....