{"title":"From Shanghai to Wall Street: The Influence of Chinese News Sentiment on US Stocks","authors":"Kingstone Nyakurukwa, Yudhvir Seetharam","doi":"10.1080/15427560.2023.2270100","DOIUrl":null,"url":null,"abstract":"AbstractThis study explores the influence of Chinese news sentiment on US stocks, focusing on the potential policy shift granting Chinese retail traders direct access to US markets. Analyzing the flow of information between Chinese news sentiment and global news sentiment using transfer entropy, the findings reveal a significant influence of Chinese news sentiment on global news sentiment. Moreover, the study identifies a predominant unidirectional flow of information from news sentiment to stock returns, with Chinese news sentiment having a more substantial impact on future returns of US stocks compared to global news sentiment. This suggests that if the proposed policy changes succeed, Chinese retail traders may rely on Chinese news sentiment, potentially leading to increased volatility in the US market. Policymakers and market participants should be aware of these implications to prepare for changes in the US stock market dynamics. Further research can provide deeper insights into the interplay between news sentiment, investor behavior, and market volatility.Keywords: Behavioral financeinvestor sentimentretail investorstextual analysisinformation flow Disclosure statementNo potential conflict of interest was reported by the authors.Notes1 https://www.scmp.com/news/china/money-wealth/article/3126504/if-chinese-traders-enter-us-markets-they-may-bring2 A full list of the stocks is included as Table A3 in the Appendix.","PeriodicalId":47016,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Behavioral Finance","volume":"39 9 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":1.7000,"publicationDate":"2023-10-17","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":"0","resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":null,"PeriodicalName":"Journal of Behavioral Finance","FirstCategoryId":"1085","ListUrlMain":"https://doi.org/10.1080/15427560.2023.2270100","RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"经济学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":null,"EPubDate":"","PubModel":"","JCR":"Q3","JCRName":"BUSINESS, FINANCE","Score":null,"Total":0}
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Abstract
AbstractThis study explores the influence of Chinese news sentiment on US stocks, focusing on the potential policy shift granting Chinese retail traders direct access to US markets. Analyzing the flow of information between Chinese news sentiment and global news sentiment using transfer entropy, the findings reveal a significant influence of Chinese news sentiment on global news sentiment. Moreover, the study identifies a predominant unidirectional flow of information from news sentiment to stock returns, with Chinese news sentiment having a more substantial impact on future returns of US stocks compared to global news sentiment. This suggests that if the proposed policy changes succeed, Chinese retail traders may rely on Chinese news sentiment, potentially leading to increased volatility in the US market. Policymakers and market participants should be aware of these implications to prepare for changes in the US stock market dynamics. Further research can provide deeper insights into the interplay between news sentiment, investor behavior, and market volatility.Keywords: Behavioral financeinvestor sentimentretail investorstextual analysisinformation flow Disclosure statementNo potential conflict of interest was reported by the authors.Notes1 https://www.scmp.com/news/china/money-wealth/article/3126504/if-chinese-traders-enter-us-markets-they-may-bring2 A full list of the stocks is included as Table A3 in the Appendix.
期刊介绍:
In Journal of Behavioral Finance , leaders in many fields are brought together to address the implications of current work on individual and group emotion, cognition, and action for the behavior of investment markets. They include specialists in personality, social, and clinical psychology; psychiatry; organizational behavior; accounting; marketing; sociology; anthropology; behavioral economics; finance; and the multidisciplinary study of judgment and decision making. The journal will foster debate among groups who have keen insights into the behavioral patterns of markets but have not historically published in the more traditional financial and economic journals. Further, it will stimulate new interdisciplinary research and theory that will build a body of knowledge about the psychological influences on investment market fluctuations. The most obvious benefit will be a new understanding of investment markets that can greatly improve investment decision making. Another benefit will be the opportunity for behavioral scientists to expand the scope of their studies via the use of the enormous databases that document behavior in investment markets.