How information is translated into market prices is still an open question. This paper studies the impact of newswire messages on intraday price discovery, liquidity, and trading intensity in an electronic limit order market. We take an objective ex ante measure of the tone of a message to study...

Newswire messages make up a major part of the public information set available to investors. The last decades have seen drastic changes in trading technology and the way that financial markets operate. As trading technology advances, news providers have kept pace and deliver news to market...