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Decoding Equity Market Reactions to Macroeconomic News
The equity market’s reaction to macroeconomic news is consistent with the propagation of news into the real economy. We embody all the macro news in an activity news index and a price news index that together explain 34% of the quarterly stock price returns variation. When those indexes capture a stream of favorable macroeconomic surprises, publicly traded firms experience increases in revenues, profitability, financing, and investment activities. The firm-level resultslead up to an expansion of the real side of the whole U.S. economy. Our findings, taken together, show that stock prices’ ...