How do commodity futures respond to macroeconomic news?

Financial Markets and Portfolio Management

Volumn 22, Issue 2, 2008, Pages 127-146

  Hess, Dieter ^a   Huang, He ^a   Niessen, Alexandra ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF COLOGNE   (Germany)

Author keywords

Business cycle; Commodities; Macroeconomic announcements

Indexed keywords

EID: 43649099090     PISSN: 15554961     EISSN: 1555497X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s11408-008-0074-x     Document Type: Article

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