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Fig. 1 Cont<strong>in</strong>uous l<strong>in</strong>e is the TY future (scale <strong>in</strong> the right axis). Piecewise l<strong>in</strong>e is ISM (scale <strong>in</strong><br />

the left axis)<br />

gradually accumulate positions <strong>in</strong> the direction <strong>of</strong> the trend whilst hedgers are<br />

counter-trend followers. Trends by themselves tend to last <strong>in</strong> time and the cor-<br />

rection to our equation com<strong>in</strong>g from this momentum is represented by α 3.<br />

ð1 LÞTYt ¼ Xp<br />

i¼0<br />

i;C;SðNÞðNt i E½Nt iŠÞ þ "t; (2)<br />

where i is the time measured s<strong>in</strong>ce the moment <strong>of</strong> the release, C is the variable<br />

represent<strong>in</strong>g where we are <strong>in</strong> the bus<strong>in</strong>ess cycle and tak<strong>in</strong>g values ‘Top, Bottom,<br />

Expansion, Contraction’, and S(N) is the sign <strong>of</strong> the forecast error N−E(N).<br />

The fact that parameters depend on the moment <strong>of</strong> the bus<strong>in</strong>ess cycle and the<br />

sign <strong>of</strong> the forecast<strong>in</strong>g errors, will permit us to discover hidden relations that<br />

otherwise are not possible to discern. For example, <strong>in</strong> an analysis <strong>of</strong> non-farms<br />

payrolls for β <strong>in</strong>dependent <strong>of</strong> C and S(N) we f<strong>in</strong>d a very strong relation, as expected.<br />

However, if β depends on the bus<strong>in</strong>ess cycle, non-farms payrolls affect TY<br />

only when the cycle is <strong>in</strong> the top and the bottom range and matters little when the<br />

cycle is <strong>in</strong> expansion.<br />

3 Methodology<br />

D. Veredas<br />

We can simplify model (1) above <strong>in</strong> the follow<strong>in</strong>g way. First we notice that<br />

the ISM and the TY price are <strong>in</strong>versely correlated: −0.71 (see also Fig. 1). TY moves<br />

up when ISM goes down, peaks close to when ISM bottoms then sells <strong>of</strong>f when<br />

ISM starts recover<strong>in</strong>g aga<strong>in</strong>, until it reaches a top. So the price trend and the macroeconomic<br />

trend are strongly related and, <strong>in</strong> a way, represent the same explanatory<br />

variable. In other words, we can assume that α1=−α<br />

2.<br />

We therefore decide<br />

to divide the bus<strong>in</strong>ess cycle <strong>in</strong>to different phases, expla<strong>in</strong>ed below, and estimate<br />

the follow<strong>in</strong>g equation:<br />

Given the previous arguments, our <strong>in</strong>terest is to model the effect <strong>of</strong> news arrivals <strong>in</strong><br />

the bond future market not only contemporaneously but also through time and<br />

depend<strong>in</strong>g on the momentum <strong>of</strong> the bus<strong>in</strong>ess cycle and the sign <strong>of</strong> the forecast<br />

error. We want to answer questions like: For how long does employment news

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