This book provides evidence of stock market reaction to earnings announcement during a recessionary period of the business cycle, provides evidence of the earnings' informativeness and provide evidence with regard to capital market efficiency of the Johannesburg Stock Exchange (JSE) ALT-X stock market. Empirical evidence demonstrates that there is substantial negative share price reaction to earnings announcements on the ALT-X stock market. The study in this book indicated that the information content of earnings is quite noticeable; however, during the event window chosen there was a...