We explore the impact of media content on sovereign credit risk. Our measure of media tone is extracted from the Thomson Reuters News Analytics database. As a proxy for sovereign credit risk we consider Credit Default Swap (CDS) spreads, which are decomposed into their risk premium and default...

News and sentiment in news often influence financial markets and asset prices. While this is well-recognized by investors, only few studies have used sentiment in news to predict future developments in financial markets to formulate alpha generating strategies, let alone create a best practice...