The Handbook of News Analytics in Finance is a landmark publication bringing together the latest models and applications of News Analytics for asset pricing, portfolio construction, trading and risk control. The content of the Hand Book is organised to provide a rapid yet comprehensive understanding of this topic. Chapter 1 sets out an overview of News Analytics (NA) with an explanation of the technology and applications. The rest of the chapters are presented in four parts. Part 1 contains an explanation of methods and models which are used to measure and quantify news sentiment. In Part 2 the relationship between news events and discovery of abnormal returns (the elusive alpha) is discussed in detail by the leading researchers and industry experts. The material in this part also covers potential application of NA to trading and fund management. Part 3 covers the use of quantified news for the purpose of monitoring, early diagnostics and risk control. Part 4 is entirely industry focused; it contains insights of experts from leading technology (content) vendors. It also contains a discussion of technologies and finally a compact directory of content vendor and financial analytics companies in the marketplace of NA. The book draws equally upon the expertise of academics and practitioners who have developed these models and is supported by two major content vendors - RavenPack and Thomson Reuters - leading providers of news analytics software and machine readable news. The book will appeal to decision makers in the banking, finance and insurance services industry. In particular: asset managers; quantitative fund managers; hedge fund managers; algorithmic traders; proprietary (program) trading desks; sell-side firms; brokerage houses; risk managers and research departments will benefit from the unique insights into this new and pertinent area of financial modelling.
Preface. Acknowledgements. About the editors. About the contributors. Abbreviations and acronyms. 1 Applications of news analytics in finance: A review (Leela Mitra and Gautam Mitra). 1.1 Introduction. 1.2 News data. 1.3 Turning qualitative text into quantified metrics and time-series. 1.4 Models and applications. 1.5 Summary and discussions. PART I QUANTIFYING NEWS: ALTERNATIVE METRICS. 2 News analytics: Framework, techniques, and metrics (Sanjiv R. Das). 2.1 Prologue. 2.2 Framework. 2.3 Algorithms. 2.4 Metrics. 2.5 Discussion. 2.6 References. 3 Managing real-time risks and returns: The Thomson Reuters NewsScope Event Indices (Alexander D. Healy and Andrew W. Lo). 3.1 Introduction. 3.2 Literature review. 3.3 Data. 3.4 A framework for real-time news analytics. 3.5 Validating Event Indices. 3.6 News indices and FX implied volatility. 3.7 Event study analysis through September 2008. 3.8 Conclusion. 4 Measuring the value of media sentiment: A pragmatic view (Marion Munz). 4.1 Introduction. 4.2 The value of news for the US stock market. 4.3 News moves markets. 4.4 News moves stock prices. 4.5 News vs. noise. 4.6 Regulated vs. unregulated news. 4.7 The news component of the stock price. 4.8 Materiality is near. 4.9 Size does matter. 4.10 Corporate senior management under the gun. 4.11 A case for regulated financial news media. 4.12 Wall Street analysts may create "material" news. 4.13 Traders may create news. 4.14 Earnings news releases. 4.15 News sentiment used for trading or investing decisions. 4.16 News sentiment systems. 4.17 Backtesting news sentiment systems. 4.18 The value of media sentiment. 4.19 Media sentiment in action. 4.20 Conclusion. 5 How news events impact market sentiment (Peter Ager Hafez). 5.1 Introduction. 5.2 Market-level sentiment. 5.3 Industry-level sentiment. 5.4 Conclusion. PART II NEWS AND ABNORMAL RETURNS. 6 Relating news analytics to stock returns (David Leinweber and Jacob Sisk). 6.1 Introduction. 6.2 Previous work. 6.3 News data structure and statistics. 6.4 Improving news analytics with aggregation. 6.5 Refining filters using interactive exploratory data analysis and visualization. 6.6 Information efficiency and market capitalization. 6.7 US portfolio simulation using news analytic signals. 6.8 Discussion of RNSE and portfolio construction. 6.9 Summary and areas for additional research. 6.10 Acknowledgments. 6.11 References. 7 All that glitters: The effect of attention and news on the buying behavior of individual and institutional investors (Brad M. Barber and Terrance Odean). 7.1 Related research. 7.2 Data. 7.3 Sort methodology. 7.4 Results. 7.5 Short-sale constraints. 7.6 Asset pricing: Theory and evidence. 7.7 Conclusion. 7.8 Acknowledgments. 7.9 References. 8 The impact of news flow on asset returns: An empirical study (Andy Moniz, Gurvinder Brar, Christian Davies, and Adam Strudwick). 8.1 Background and literature review. 8.2 Aspects of news flow datasets. 8.3 Understanding news flow datasets. 8.4 Does news flow matter? 8.5 News flow and analyst revisions. 8.6 Designing a trading strategy. 8.7 Summary and discussions. 8.8 References. 9 Sentiment reversals as buy signals (John Kittrell). 9.1 Introduction. 9.2 The quantification of sentiment. 9.3 Sentiment reversal universes. 9.4 Monte Carlo-style simulations. 9.5 Conclusion. 9.6 Acknowledgments. 9.7 References. PART III NEWS AND RISK. 10 Using news as a state variable in assessment of financial market risk (Dan diBartolomeo). 10.1 Introduction. 10.2 The role of news. 10.3 A state-variable approach to risk assessment. 10.4 A Bayesian framework for news inclusion. 10.5 Conclusions. 10.6 References. 11 Volatility asymmetry, news, and private investors (Michal Dzielinski, Marc Oliver Rieger, and Tonn Talpsepp). 11.1 Introduction. 11.2 What causes volatility asymmetry? 11.3 Who makes markets volatile? 11.4 Conclusions. 11.5 Acknowledgments. 11.6 References. 12 Firm-specific news arrival and the volatility of intraday stock index and futures returns (
