Media-aware stock performance has been a hot issue in asset pricing. Numerous studies have focused on the impact of news content. However, few studies have paid attention to the form of news releases. In this paper, using data from 126,784 news of Chinese listed companies from 2013-2018, we...

We study whether analysts' recommendations and the market's reactions to recommendation changes are influenced by the structure of analysts' research portfolios. We find that analysts maintain more positive recommendations for stocks that belong to the “core industry” in their research...