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New News is Bad News

An increase in the novelty of news predicts negative stock market returns and negative macroeconomic outcomes over the next year. We quantify news novelty - changes in the distribution of news text - through an entropy measure, calculated using a recurrent neural network applied to a large news corp

Holy Grail Math 6.5 Rigor 8 ·  September 11, 2023

Does Overnight News Explain Overnight Returns?

Over the past 30 years, nearly all the gains in the U.S. stock market have been earned overnight, while average intraday returns have been negative or flat. We find that a large part of this effect can be explained through features of intraday and overnight news. Our analysis uses a collection of 2.

Street Traders Math 4.5 Rigor 8 ·  July 6, 2025

Assessing Look-Ahead Bias in Stock Return Predictions Generated By GPT Sentiment Analysis

Large language models (LLMs), including ChatGPT, can extract profitable trading signals from the sentiment in news text. However, backtesting such strategies poses a challenge because LLMs are trained on many years of data, and backtesting produces biased results if the training and backtesting peri

Street Traders Math 3 Rigor 7.5 ·  September 29, 2023

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