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GOOD NEWS, BAD NEWS, VOLUME, AND THE MONDAY EFFECT
Author(s) -
Fishe Raymond P.H.,
Gosnell Thomas F.,
Lasser Dennis J.
Publication year - 1993
Publication title -
journal of business finance and accounting
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 1.282
H-Index - 77
eISSN - 1468-5957
pISSN - 0306-686X
DOI - 10.1111/j.1468-5957.1993.tb00299.x
Subject(s) - stock (firearms) , economics , names of the days of the week , stock market , volume (thermodynamics) , weekend effect , financial economics , monetary economics , econometrics , geography , medicine , context (archaeology) , physics , archaeology , quantum mechanics , emergency medicine , philosophy , linguistics
New evidence is presented on the nature of the Monday effect in stock market returns. Using stock returns for the years 1962‐1986, the Monday effect is found to be confined to periods of negative market returns. Monday's returns are no different from other weekday returns in periods of positive returns. In addition, trading volume and the Monday effect are related. Monday's volume is lower than the other weekdays. When returns are compared controlling for trading volume, we find that the Monday effect is confined to negative return periods with above normal volume, which represent only two per cent of the sample period.