Text-reading machines can predict share prices
Using machine-learning techniques, researchers devised a model for identifying positive and negative sentiment in financial news.
Machine learning can help money managers time markets, build portfolios, and manage risk
Research suggests today’s computers can predict asset returns with an unprecedented accuracy.
What Tweets and Yelp reviews are revealing
Text analysis is allowing researchers to make a host of observations.
Banks’ capital ratios help determine asset prices
Some assets are more sensitive to capital risk than others.
The price of policy uncertainty
Uncertainty is confounding by its very definition. In the economy, uncertainty can arise from a number of different corners, including wars, natural disasters, and, of course, government decisions—or indecision.