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- Title
Herding on Noise: The Case of Johnson Redbook's Weekly Retail Sales Data.
- Authors
Golec, Joseph
- Abstract
Recent models of herding suggest that speculators may rationally trade on information unrelated to fundamentals when their trading horizons are short. This study provides an empirical example where this appears to be the case. Johnson Redbook's weekly retail sales figures predicted bond returns for a short time after a significant number of bond traders began purchasing and trading on the data. The significant relationship between the data and bond returns disappeared just after the Wall Street Journal started to report it. Meanwhile, there was little or no change in the relationship between the data and retailers' stock returns, perhaps because the data have long been followed by retail stock analysts, Johnson Redbook's original investor clientele.
- Subjects
REDBOOK Research Inc.; RETAIL industry finance; RATE of return; BOND market; BOND transfer; RATE of return on stocks; INVESTORS
- Publication
Journal of Financial & Quantitative Analysis, 1997, Vol 32, Issue 3, p367
- ISSN
0022-1090
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.2307/2331205