The third edition of my book!

Since a couple of months, my book Finance - Markets, Instruments and Investments is available in a new (third) edition.

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Emerging market stocks + currency mismatch

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I am not too fond of the label ”Emerging Markets”, at least not in discussions about investment opportunities. I mean, what, exactly, is an emerging market? And which countries should count as emerging? Another thing that is often misused, or misunderstood, is buy/sell recommendations. Very often you hear someone recommending a buy or sell for this or that stock without adding a time horizon. I mean, isn’t it possible that a stock could be expected to fall more before it starts climbing? Yes, of course! Also emerging markets stocks…. I will come back to this particular issue in the last paragraph below. Anyway, this entry is not about these naïve observations. Instead, what I want to highlight is a rather unknown (I think) negative (sell) observation that is applicable, first and foremost, to emerging country stocks. As of lately, many emerging market currencies have weakened dramatically against particularly the US dollar. Whether we are talking about BRICS or MINTS or any other group...
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Chinese News, English News and the Chinese Stock Market Crash

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In my research I am not only working on credit and credit risk but I also focus on financial stability, performance measures, commercial microfinance, and market behavior in general. I have also written academic papers on the use of news aggregators in finance. Considering the recent Chinese stock market correction, my latest paper on this topic turned out to be very timely! In the paper Byström (2014) “ Language, News and Volatility ” I use Google News to study the relation between news volumes in both English and Chinese and stock market volatilities in China and elsewhere. In collect more than nine million stock market-related news stories in English and (Mandarin) Chinese and find that the stock market volatility and the number of publicly available global news stories are strongly linked to each other both in English- and Chinese language. The relationship between news and volatility is weakest in mainland China, however, and a possible reason for this is that Chinese retail inv...
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The investor that predicts stock returns without even knowing it!

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What are investors’ current stock return expectations? That is a question commonly found in the financial press. Typically, the type of investor one has in mind is the stock market investor . Not commodity investors, property investors or other investors. That makes sense since zinc investors or apartment block investors have other things to think about than whether the typical publically listed stock will go up or down in the future. There is one other group of investors that actually care about the future valuation of public companies, however, and that is the credit market investor . Investors who buy corporate bonds (or credit default swaps) also care about the future wellbeing of the company. What’s more, these investors often take a long-term view of the company and its valuation. In the paper Stock Return Expectations in the Credit Market (which you can find here ) I suggest a way of extracting these investors’ expectations of future stock returns. To do this I compute long-te...
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