Sentiment correlation in financial news networks and associated market movements

Abstract In an increasingly connected global market, news sentiment towards one company may not only indicate its own market performance, but can also be associated with a broader movement on the sentiment and performance of other companies from the same or even different sectors. In this paper, we...

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Autores principales: Xingchen Wan, Jie Yang, Slavi Marinov, Jan-Peter Calliess, Stefan Zohren, Xiaowen Dong
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spelling oai:doaj.org-article:a2278f9569e644e3b01e0f138f0d548b2021-12-02T10:44:21ZSentiment correlation in financial news networks and associated market movements10.1038/s41598-021-82338-62045-2322https://doaj.org/article/a2278f9569e644e3b01e0f138f0d548b2021-02-01T00:00:00Zhttps://doi.org/10.1038/s41598-021-82338-6https://doaj.org/toc/2045-2322Abstract In an increasingly connected global market, news sentiment towards one company may not only indicate its own market performance, but can also be associated with a broader movement on the sentiment and performance of other companies from the same or even different sectors. In this paper, we apply NLP techniques to understand news sentiment of 87 companies among the most reported on Reuters for a period of 7 years. We investigate the propagation of such sentiment in company networks and evaluate the associated market movements in terms of stock price and volatility. Our results suggest that, in certain sectors, strong media sentiment towards one company may indicate a significant change in media sentiment towards related companies measured as neighbours in a financial network constructed from news co-occurrence. Furthermore, there exists a weak but statistically significant association between strong media sentiment and abnormal market return as well as volatility. Such an association is more significant at the level of individual companies, but nevertheless remains visible at the level of sectors or groups of companies.Xingchen WanJie YangSlavi MarinovJan-Peter CalliessStefan ZohrenXiaowen DongNature PortfolioarticleMedicineRScienceQENScientific Reports, Vol 11, Iss 1, Pp 1-12 (2021)
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Xingchen Wan
Jie Yang
Slavi Marinov
Jan-Peter Calliess
Stefan Zohren
Xiaowen Dong
Sentiment correlation in financial news networks and associated market movements
description Abstract In an increasingly connected global market, news sentiment towards one company may not only indicate its own market performance, but can also be associated with a broader movement on the sentiment and performance of other companies from the same or even different sectors. In this paper, we apply NLP techniques to understand news sentiment of 87 companies among the most reported on Reuters for a period of 7 years. We investigate the propagation of such sentiment in company networks and evaluate the associated market movements in terms of stock price and volatility. Our results suggest that, in certain sectors, strong media sentiment towards one company may indicate a significant change in media sentiment towards related companies measured as neighbours in a financial network constructed from news co-occurrence. Furthermore, there exists a weak but statistically significant association between strong media sentiment and abnormal market return as well as volatility. Such an association is more significant at the level of individual companies, but nevertheless remains visible at the level of sectors or groups of companies.
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author Xingchen Wan
Jie Yang
Slavi Marinov
Jan-Peter Calliess
Stefan Zohren
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Jie Yang
Slavi Marinov
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title Sentiment correlation in financial news networks and associated market movements
title_short Sentiment correlation in financial news networks and associated market movements
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title_fullStr Sentiment correlation in financial news networks and associated market movements
title_full_unstemmed Sentiment correlation in financial news networks and associated market movements
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