Economic Policy Review
What Moves the Bond Market?
December 1997 Volume 3, Number 4
JEL classification: G14, E43, E52

Authors: Michael J. Fleming and Eli M. Remolona

In an examination of the U.S. Treasury securities market, the authors attempt to explain the sharpest price changes and most active trading episodes. They find that each of the twenty-five largest price shocks and twenty-five greatest trading surges can be attributed to just-released macroeconomic announcements. They also measure the market’s average reactions to theses announcements and analyze the extent to which the reactions depend on the degree of announcement surprise and on prevailing market conditions. The market’s price and trading reactions are found to reflect differences of informational content in and among the varying announcements under changing market conditions.

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