Reaction to non-scheduled News During Financial Crisis: Australian Evidence

News analytics software applies linguistic algorithms to newswire releases in order to assign a sentiment score; this allows users to comprehend the unstructured data flowing through newswires. I examine the market reaction of leading Australian stocks to stock-specific news flow during the financia...

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Main Author: Smales, Lee
Format: Journal Article
Published: Routledge 2014
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Online Access:http://hdl.handle.net/20.500.11937/12208
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description News analytics software applies linguistic algorithms to newswire releases in order to assign a sentiment score; this allows users to comprehend the unstructured data flowing through newswires. I examine the market reaction of leading Australian stocks to stock-specific news flow during the financial crisis of 2007–2009. A high-frequency VAR model with GARCH effects modelled through a VECH(1,1) specification is utilized. I find a significant market impact induced by contemporaneous news items, a significant and positive relationship between volume and volatility, an increase in bid–ask spreads following periods of increased volatility, and evidence of volatility persistence.
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spelling curtin-20.500.11937-122082017-09-13T14:59:51Z Reaction to non-scheduled News During Financial Crisis: Australian Evidence Smales, Lee news analytics ASX VAR-GARCH stock market nonscheduled news News analytics software applies linguistic algorithms to newswire releases in order to assign a sentiment score; this allows users to comprehend the unstructured data flowing through newswires. I examine the market reaction of leading Australian stocks to stock-specific news flow during the financial crisis of 2007–2009. A high-frequency VAR model with GARCH effects modelled through a VECH(1,1) specification is utilized. I find a significant market impact induced by contemporaneous news items, a significant and positive relationship between volume and volatility, an increase in bid–ask spreads following periods of increased volatility, and evidence of volatility persistence. 2014 Journal Article http://hdl.handle.net/20.500.11937/12208 10.1080/13504851.2014.920465 Routledge fulltext
spellingShingle news analytics
ASX
VAR-GARCH
stock market
nonscheduled news
Smales, Lee
Reaction to non-scheduled News During Financial Crisis: Australian Evidence
title Reaction to non-scheduled News During Financial Crisis: Australian Evidence
title_full Reaction to non-scheduled News During Financial Crisis: Australian Evidence
title_fullStr Reaction to non-scheduled News During Financial Crisis: Australian Evidence
title_full_unstemmed Reaction to non-scheduled News During Financial Crisis: Australian Evidence
title_short Reaction to non-scheduled News During Financial Crisis: Australian Evidence
title_sort reaction to non-scheduled news during financial crisis: australian evidence
topic news analytics
ASX
VAR-GARCH
stock market
nonscheduled news
url http://hdl.handle.net/20.500.11937/12208