We examine the spillover effects between social media sentiments and market-implied volatilities among stock, bond, foreign exchange, and commodity markets. We find that informational spillover comes mainly from volatility indices to sentiment indices, with the VIX being the most significant net...

We examine the spillover effects between social media sentiments and market-implied volatilities among stock, bond, foreign exchange, and commodity markets. We find that informational spillover comes mainly from volatility indices to sentiment indices, with the VIX being the most significant net...

Using a large sample of target price forecasts for 6,415 U.S. firms from 1999 to 2011, we find that target price changes predict institutional trading, even after we control for changes in both stock recommendations and earnings forecasts. The impact of target price changes is economically...