With limited test data, we can say that news matters in the short-term, but doesn’t generally have a long-term impact.
Stock markets, along with bonds and futures markets, seemed to react negatively to the announcement from the Federal Reserve that they would be launching Operation Twist. From the moment the news was announced stocks fell. Bonds rose while gold and other commodities fell. All of this prompts a few interesting questions:
- The Fed did mostly what was expected. How does their action impact different investments like stocks, bonds, and commodities?
- If markets really discount the future, why do they react so much to news?
- Can any of this be tested?
- Should traders follow news events?
More than just being an interesting thought exercise, we need to think about whether or not we can make money trading based on any of this.
The Fed announced that they would buy Treasury securities with longer maturities and finance the purchases with sales of short-term Treasuries. T
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