Research brief 018

A 1.08% three-day spread. What gets missed when earnings take center stage?

A study of earnings surprises asks whether company news crowds out the market news arriving alongside it.

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Investors can be absorbed in a company’s results while market-wide information competes for attention. Pan, Sul and Wang study that interaction across earnings announcements.

The full analysis examines the study and the practical question behind it: A study of earnings surprises asks whether company news crowds out the market news arriving alongside it.

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  • How this differs from ordinary earnings drift
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