Building News Measures from Textual Data and an Application to Volatility Forecasting

We retrieve news stories and earnings announcements of the S&P 100 constituents from two professional news providers, along with ten macroeconomic indicators. We also gather data from Google Trends about these firms’ assets as an index of retail investors’ attention. Thus, we create an exten...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Authors: Massimiliano Caporin, Francesco Poli
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: MDPI AG 2017-08-01
Series:Econometrics
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Online Access:https://www.mdpi.com/2225-1146/5/3/35