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International Finance Discussion Papers: The High-Frequency Effects of U.S. Macroeconomic Data Releases on Prices and Trading Activity in the Global I

International Finance Discussion Papers: The High-Frequency Effects of U.S. Macroeconomic Data Releases on Prices and Trading Activity in the Global I

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Business GeneralInvesting & FinanceGeneral Political Science

ISBN10: 1298050855
ISBN13: 9781298050854
Publisher: Scholar's Choice
Published: Feb 16 2015
Pages: 44
Weight: 0.17
Height: 0.09 Width: 6.14 Depth: 9.21
Language: English

We introduce a new high-frequency foreign exchange dataset from EBS (Electronic Broking Service) that includes trading volume in the global interdealer spot market, data not previously available to researchers. The data also gives live transactable quotes, rather than the indicative quotes that have been used in most previous high frequency foreign exchange analysis. We describe intraday volume and volatility patterns in euro-dollar and dollar-yen trading. We study the effects of scheduled U.S. macroeconomic data releases, first confirming the finding of recent literature that the conditional mean of the exchange rate responds very quickly to the unexpected component of data releases. We next study the effects of data releases on trading volumes. News releases cause volume to rise, and to remain elevated for a longer period. However, in contrast to the result for the level of the exchange rate, even if the data release is entirely in line with expectations, we find that there is still typically a large pickup in trading volume.

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