TY - JOUR
T1 - Informativeness of trades around macroeconomic announcements in the foreign exchange market
AU - Wu, Zhen Xing
AU - Gau, Yin Feng
N1 - Publisher Copyright:
© 2022 Elsevier B.V.
PY - 2022/5
Y1 - 2022/5
N2 - We study the extent to which private information is revealed through trades in the foreign exchange market. The trade informativeness measured from the VAR framework of trades and quotes allows us to quantify the impact of asymmetric information on return variation. We find the intraday variation in the proportion of permanent price variation driven by trade-related information has a repetitive periodic pattern, and trades in the overlapping trading hours of London and New York carry most information than the other time segments. The results show the fraction of trade-related component to exchange rate variation positively relates to trading volume and reversely relates to effective spread. With a comprehensive set of 48 real-time US, European, and Japanese macroeconomic news surprises variables, and controlling for the effect of trading volume, spread, and volatility, we find news of production-related economic indicator, e.g., GDP and industrial production, has a positive relationship with the trade informativeness in a trading period, suggesting the increased private information share may be attributed to heterogeneous interpretations of the announcement among market participants. Announcement-related information is gradually resolved into the price, and the information is transited via the channel of trading activities.
AB - We study the extent to which private information is revealed through trades in the foreign exchange market. The trade informativeness measured from the VAR framework of trades and quotes allows us to quantify the impact of asymmetric information on return variation. We find the intraday variation in the proportion of permanent price variation driven by trade-related information has a repetitive periodic pattern, and trades in the overlapping trading hours of London and New York carry most information than the other time segments. The results show the fraction of trade-related component to exchange rate variation positively relates to trading volume and reversely relates to effective spread. With a comprehensive set of 48 real-time US, European, and Japanese macroeconomic news surprises variables, and controlling for the effect of trading volume, spread, and volatility, we find news of production-related economic indicator, e.g., GDP and industrial production, has a positive relationship with the trade informativeness in a trading period, suggesting the increased private information share may be attributed to heterogeneous interpretations of the announcement among market participants. Announcement-related information is gradually resolved into the price, and the information is transited via the channel of trading activities.
KW - Foreign exchange market
KW - Information content
KW - Macroeconomic announcements
KW - Order flow
KW - Private information
UR - http://www.scopus.com/inward/record.url?scp=85126294614&partnerID=8YFLogxK
U2 - 10.1016/j.intfin.2022.101533
DO - 10.1016/j.intfin.2022.101533
M3 - 期刊論文
AN - SCOPUS:85126294614
SN - 1042-4431
VL - 78
JO - Journal of International Financial Markets, Institutions and Money
JF - Journal of International Financial Markets, Institutions and Money
M1 - 101533
ER -