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Is No News Good News?: The Streaming News Effect on Investor Behavior Surrounding Analyst Stock Revision Announcement

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  • Sheridan Titman
  • Takahiro Azuma
  • Katsuhiko Okada
  • Yukinobu Hamuro

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We investigate media influence on stock returns that are revised by sell-side analysts. Our main findings are twofold. First, post-announcement returns depend on whether the stock is covered by the media. Media-covered stocks demonstrate weaker post-announcement returns than their non-media-covered counterparts. Second, for media-covered event samples, we create a sentiment proxy using a unique news word count method and investigate whether pre-event sentiment affects post-event returns. Our results indicate that pre-event sentiment dictates short-run investor behavior and affects the post-announcement return in a significant manner.

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  • Sheridan Titman & Takahiro Azuma & Katsuhiko Okada & Yukinobu Hamuro, 2014. "Is No News Good News?: The Streaming News Effect on Investor Behavior Surrounding Analyst Stock Revision Announcement," International Review of Finance, International Review of Finance Ltd., vol. 14(1), pages 29-51, March.
    • Handle: RePEc:bla:irvfin:v:14:y:2014:i:1:p:29-51
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