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Characterizing Financial Market Coverage using Artificial Intelligence

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  • Jean Marie Tshimula
  • D'Jeff K. Nkashama
  • Patrick Owusu
  • Marc Frappier
  • Pierre-Martin Tardif
  • Froduald Kabanza
  • Armelle Brun
  • Jean-Marc Patenaude
  • Shengrui Wang
  • Belkacem Chikhaoui

Abstract

This paper scrutinizes a database of over 4900 YouTube videos to characterize financial market coverage. Financial market coverage generates a large number of videos. Therefore, watching these videos to derive actionable insights could be challenging and complex. In this paper, we leverage Whisper, a speech-to-text model from OpenAI, to generate a text corpus of market coverage videos from Bloomberg and Yahoo Finance. We employ natural language processing to extract insights regarding language use from the market coverage. Moreover, we examine the prominent presence of trending topics and their evolution over time, and the impacts that some individuals and organizations have on the financial market. Our characterization highlights the dynamics of the financial market coverage and provides valuable insights reflecting broad discussions regarding recent financial events and the world economy.

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  • Jean Marie Tshimula & D'Jeff K. Nkashama & Patrick Owusu & Marc Frappier & Pierre-Martin Tardif & Froduald Kabanza & Armelle Brun & Jean-Marc Patenaude & Shengrui Wang & Belkacem Chikhaoui, 2023. "Characterizing Financial Market Coverage using Artificial Intelligence," Papers 2302.03694, arXiv.org.
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