This paper explores the impact of Kodak’s announcements of ventures into the cryptocurrency and pharmaceutical industries on market sentiment and investor emotions. Evaluating social media data using novel sentiment analysis techniques, we find that emotions such as excitement, mania, anxiety,...

We construct and develop a new financial market stress index using twenty-three headline U.K. financial data series. A logistic regression framework provides a parsimonious representation of financial market stress in the U.K. based on the market dynamics around the time of Bank of England...

This paper utilises a newly compiled, unique data set of silver prices for the London and New York markets, as well as the monthly Dollar-Sterling exchange rate from 1878 and 1953 to investigate the source and flows of information and price discovery. Results indicate that London was the...