Predicting UK stock market short-term activity and returns from Daily Mail Online
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School of Business |
Bachelor's thesis
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2017
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Rahoitus
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en
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31
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In this paper, I’m deriving a direct measure of investor sentiment from Daily Mail Online news articles using SentiWordNet lexical resource for opinion mining, and I find that it has the ability to predict London Stock Exchange market activity and returns. More precisely the results state that all news – not only financial news – can offer a significant input in predicting stock market activity and that the direction of the effects differs between news categories. The dataset used in this paper is unique; it consists of 1,139,243 Daily Mail Online news articles published between years 2008 and 2017.Description
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Lof, MatthijsKeywords
opinion mining, finance, sentiment analysis, online news, investor sentiment, big data, computational linguistics, Daily Mail