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The World Cup stock market effect: Is it an actual thing?

The World Cup stock market effect, the idea that football's biggest tournament reaches into share prices, has been a fixture of the financial pages for years. The attention shock is real and enormous. But a new working paper suggests the market response is far smaller than the headlines claim, and that some of it was never there to begin with.

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The World Cup stock market effect: Is it an actual thing?