That's an excellent question, especially looking into factors that affect the return-generating process in the stock market-in other words, factors that affect the stock prices in a conventional sense: Market liquidity, length of the daily fasting period, especially contrasting summer months with winter months when Ramadan coincides with one versus the other, with the length of day being really longer during summer months.

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What they did instead of just-remember the Federal Funds Rate is a target interest rate that the Fed attempts to hit through buying and selling treasury bills in the U.S. or in other countries buying and selling government bonds to affect the market.

他们真正做的事-记住,联邦资金利率是,美联储试图通过在美国,买进和卖出国库券,或在其他国家买进和卖出政府债券,来影响市场的目标利率。

耶鲁公开课 - 金融市场课程节选

What they did instead of just-remember the Federal Funds Rate is a target interest rate that the Fed attempts to hit through buying and selling treasury bills in the U.S. or in other countries buying and selling government bonds to affect the market.

他们真正做的事-记住,联邦资金利率是,美联储试图通过在美国,买进和卖出国库券,或在其他国家买进和卖出政府债券,来影响市场的目标利率。

耶鲁公开课 - 金融市场课程节选