Asymmetric Volatility Response to news sentiment in gold futures

Utilizing firm-specific news sentiment data provided by Thomson Reuters News Analytics, I construct aggregate measures to examine the relationship between news sentiment and stock market returns over the period 2004–2010. I find a highly significant relationship between aggregated measures of news s...

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Main Author: Smales, Lee
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Published: Elsevier BV * North-Holland 2015
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Online Access:http://hdl.handle.net/20.500.11937/13017
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description Utilizing firm-specific news sentiment data provided by Thomson Reuters News Analytics, I construct aggregate measures to examine the relationship between news sentiment and stock market returns over the period 2004–2010. I find a highly significant relationship between aggregated measures of news sentiment and stock returns that fluctuates over time and by industry. I identify a link between the time-variation of news sentiment impact and industry beta, and determine that levels of investor sentiment (proxied by VIX) play an important role in explaining this variation.
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spelling curtin-20.500.11937-130172019-02-19T04:25:43Z Asymmetric Volatility Response to news sentiment in gold futures Smales, Lee Asymmetric response Trading behaviour Gold News sentiment Volatility Utilizing firm-specific news sentiment data provided by Thomson Reuters News Analytics, I construct aggregate measures to examine the relationship between news sentiment and stock market returns over the period 2004–2010. I find a highly significant relationship between aggregated measures of news sentiment and stock returns that fluctuates over time and by industry. I identify a link between the time-variation of news sentiment impact and industry beta, and determine that levels of investor sentiment (proxied by VIX) play an important role in explaining this variation. 2015 Journal Article http://hdl.handle.net/20.500.11937/13017 10.1016/j.intfin.2014.11.001 Elsevier BV * North-Holland fulltext
spellingShingle Asymmetric response
Trading behaviour
Gold
News sentiment
Volatility
Smales, Lee
Asymmetric Volatility Response to news sentiment in gold futures
title Asymmetric Volatility Response to news sentiment in gold futures
title_full Asymmetric Volatility Response to news sentiment in gold futures
title_fullStr Asymmetric Volatility Response to news sentiment in gold futures
title_full_unstemmed Asymmetric Volatility Response to news sentiment in gold futures
title_short Asymmetric Volatility Response to news sentiment in gold futures
title_sort asymmetric volatility response to news sentiment in gold futures
topic Asymmetric response
Trading behaviour
Gold
News sentiment
Volatility
url http://hdl.handle.net/20.500.11937/13017