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This paper explores the effect <strong>of</strong> macroeconomic announcements on the returns<br />

<strong>of</strong> bond futures. The literature <strong>in</strong> the field tracks back to Berkman (1978) and a<br />

series <strong>of</strong> articles published until mid 1980s (e.g. Grossman 1981; Roley 1983) that<br />

focus on money supply announcements. Goodhart et al. (1993) analyse the effect <strong>of</strong><br />

the announcements <strong>of</strong> two macroeconomic numbers on the mean and variance,<br />

McQueen and Roley (1993) study the effect <strong>of</strong> eight fundamentals on the mean<br />

dur<strong>in</strong>g eleven years, on a daily basis, <strong>of</strong> S&P500 price movements. Instead <strong>of</strong> us<strong>in</strong>g<br />

the news itself, they use the forecast<strong>in</strong>g error, i.e. the difference between the<br />

released and the expected number. Moreover, they control for the momentum <strong>of</strong><br />

the bus<strong>in</strong>ess cycle (hereafter we will refer <strong>in</strong>dist<strong>in</strong>ctively to the economic cycle as<br />

the bus<strong>in</strong>ess cycle or economic cycle). Flemm<strong>in</strong>g and Remolona (1999) study the<br />

effect <strong>of</strong> 25 macroeconomic numbers on the US bond market (see Table 1 <strong>of</strong> this<br />

article for a summary <strong>of</strong> the research done <strong>in</strong> macroeconomic announcements prior<br />

to 1997). They employ standard regression us<strong>in</strong>g five m<strong>in</strong>utes returns <strong>in</strong> absolute<br />

value, the number <strong>of</strong> transactions per hour as market measures and the macroeco-<br />

nomic forecast<strong>in</strong>g errors. DeGennaro and Shrieves (1997) look at the effect <strong>of</strong> con-<br />

Table 1 Information on macro numbers<br />

Name Acronymic Rel. hour Details<br />

D. Veredas<br />

us<strong>in</strong>g a GARCH-M and three months <strong>of</strong> tick-by-tick US-pound exchange rates.<br />

temporaneous and expost announcements <strong>of</strong> 27 USA and Japan fundamentals<br />

on the volatility <strong>of</strong> US-Yen exchange rates us<strong>in</strong>g GARCH models. Li and Engle<br />

(1998) work on the daily volatility <strong>of</strong> the 30 years note future (T-bond), via<br />

GARCH and GARCH-M models, and how it is affected by the announcements<br />

<strong>of</strong> just two fundamentals. Andersen and Bollerslev (1998) also study the effect<br />

<strong>of</strong> announcements on volatility but us<strong>in</strong>g a slightly different approach to Engle<br />

and Li’s. They analyse the Deutsche Mark-US exchange rate <strong>in</strong> a two-step procedure<br />

and us<strong>in</strong>g weighted least squares. First, they estimate a standard GARCH model and,<br />

second, they standardise the absolute residuals centered with the estimated volatility.<br />

Bus<strong>in</strong>ess <strong>in</strong>ventories BI 08:30 NY %chg m/m<br />

Consumer confidence CC 10:00 NY <strong>Index</strong> SA<br />

Consumer price <strong>in</strong>dex CPI 08:30 NY %chg m/m SA<br />

Durable goods orders DG 08:30 NY %chg m/m SA<br />

Gross domestic product GDP 08:30 NY %chg q/q SAAR<br />

Hous<strong>in</strong>g starts HS 08:30 NY Millions <strong>of</strong> units SA<br />

Industrial production IP 09:15 NY %chg m/m SA<br />

Industrial Production IP 09:15 NY %chg m/m SA<br />

Institute for Supply Management ISM 10:00 NY <strong>Index</strong><br />

Non-Farms Payrolls NFP 08:30 NY K persons chg SA<br />

Personal Income PI 08:30 NY %chg m/m SA<br />

Producer Price <strong>Index</strong> PPI 08:30 NY %chg m/m SA<br />

Retail Sales RS 08:30 NY %chg m/m SA<br />

Trade Balance TB 08:30 NY $billions<br />

Unemployment claims UNEMW 08:30 NY K persons as reported<br />

Unemployment rate UNEM 08:30 NY Rate as reported<br />

NY NY time, Rel. released, %chg percent change, SA seasonally adjusted, SAAR seasonally<br />

adjusted annual rate, m/m month to month, q/q quarter to quarter

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