Recent evidence shows that monetary policy announcements convey significant information about expected market returns and are therefore good candidates for innovations in intertemporal-asset pricing state variables. I propose an asset pricing model with the market return and a mimicking...

This paper documents that the ex-ante level of the corporate bond market distress is a good predictor for the pre-FOMC announcement return, subsuming the relevant information of equity market uncertainty highlighted by the previous literature. We compute the orthogonal components of distress and...