The sample period ranges from January 3, 1986 to September 30, 2015. The period covers many extreme events, such as the 1997 Asian financial crisis, 2000 dot-com crisis, 2007 global financial crisis and 2009 European sovereign debt crisis. Fig. 1 depicts the monthly evolution of the investor sentiment index. Obviously, investor sentiment reflects turbulent economic events such as the global financial crisis during 2007–2009, when the index hits historic lows. We begin with the univariate GARCH-MIDAS framework of Engle, Ghysels, and Sohn (2013) to model stock and bond market returns and then apply the DCC-MIDAS model (Colacito et al., 2011) based on the standardized residuals calculated in the first step to investigate the long-term correlation between the stock and bond markets.