This paper explores the effects of domestic and US macroeconomic announcement on the Romanian stock market. We found that some domestic macroeconomic announcement linked by the monetary policy had a consistent influence on the stock prices evolution. We also identify that some US macroeconomic...

Within-month anomalies and influence of macroeconomic news announcements are important characteristics of a stock market. In this paper we investigate their presence on Bucharest Stock Exchange. We find significant within-month effects and a considerable impact of some US macroeconomic news...

The classical Friday the 13th Effect refers to a calendar anomaly of financial markets which is generated by the fear of bad luck shared by the superstitious investors. As a result of their behavior, the returns from the supposed unlucky day of Friday the 13th are significant lower than those...

In the last decades, the persistence over time of the January Effect was a controversial subject. Some studies concluded this calendar anomaly remained relatively unchanged since its discovery, while others found that it experienced a substantial decline or even disappeared. This paper explores...

This paper approaches the behavior of stock returns on US capital market during the first half of February. We use the closing values of four indexes from United States capital market for the period January 2011 - April 2023. We found, for all four indexes, abnormal high returns during the first...