The impact of news sentiment on the stock market fluctuation : the case of selected energy sector

This paper examines the impact of the sentiments of OPEC news on stock market prices of public listed oil and gas companies in Bursa Malaysia. We used data of stock market prices from randomly selected oil and gas companies for the period of 2012 to 2017. For the methodology, we first established a...

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Main Authors: Ling, Wu, Siew, Hock Ow
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Penerbit Universiti Kebangsaan Malaysia 2021
Online Access:http://journalarticle.ukm.my/18795/
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description This paper examines the impact of the sentiments of OPEC news on stock market prices of public listed oil and gas companies in Bursa Malaysia. We used data of stock market prices from randomly selected oil and gas companies for the period of 2012 to 2017. For the methodology, we first established a supervised machine learning algorithm-based news classifier to classify the OPEC news following its sentiments. We developed a financial news sentiment classifier by combining machine learning algorithms and lexicon-based labelling methods. We then applied the event study method to investigate how stock market prices react to OPEC news’ sentiment. The results showed a negative correlation between OPEC news sentiment and stock market prices of oil and gas companies during the event window based on each OPEC news release date. The results further showed that the stock market prices do not react to OPEC news sentiment on event day. These findings should provide some guides to stock investors on the movement of the selected stock market prices of energy sector companies during the event window period.
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spelling oai:generic.eprints.org:187952022-06-23T08:28:09Z http://journalarticle.ukm.my/18795/ The impact of news sentiment on the stock market fluctuation : the case of selected energy sector Ling, Wu Siew, Hock Ow This paper examines the impact of the sentiments of OPEC news on stock market prices of public listed oil and gas companies in Bursa Malaysia. We used data of stock market prices from randomly selected oil and gas companies for the period of 2012 to 2017. For the methodology, we first established a supervised machine learning algorithm-based news classifier to classify the OPEC news following its sentiments. We developed a financial news sentiment classifier by combining machine learning algorithms and lexicon-based labelling methods. We then applied the event study method to investigate how stock market prices react to OPEC news’ sentiment. The results showed a negative correlation between OPEC news sentiment and stock market prices of oil and gas companies during the event window based on each OPEC news release date. The results further showed that the stock market prices do not react to OPEC news sentiment on event day. These findings should provide some guides to stock investors on the movement of the selected stock market prices of energy sector companies during the event window period. Penerbit Universiti Kebangsaan Malaysia 2021 Article PeerReviewed application/pdf en http://journalarticle.ukm.my/18795/1/jeko_553-1.pdf Ling, Wu and Siew, Hock Ow (2021) The impact of news sentiment on the stock market fluctuation : the case of selected energy sector. Jurnal Ekonomi Malaysia, 55 (3). pp. 1-21. ISSN 0127-1962 https://www.ukm.my/jem/issue/v55i3/
spellingShingle Ling, Wu
Siew, Hock Ow
The impact of news sentiment on the stock market fluctuation : the case of selected energy sector
title The impact of news sentiment on the stock market fluctuation : the case of selected energy sector
title_full The impact of news sentiment on the stock market fluctuation : the case of selected energy sector
title_fullStr The impact of news sentiment on the stock market fluctuation : the case of selected energy sector
title_full_unstemmed The impact of news sentiment on the stock market fluctuation : the case of selected energy sector
title_short The impact of news sentiment on the stock market fluctuation : the case of selected energy sector
title_sort impact of news sentiment on the stock market fluctuation : the case of selected energy sector
url http://journalarticle.ukm.my/18795/
http://journalarticle.ukm.my/18795/
http://journalarticle.ukm.my/18795/1/jeko_553-1.pdf