<Para ID="Par4">In this paper, we analyze the impact of Financial Times Deutschland (FTD) news on stock prices and trading volumes. Based on a sample of all news about German DAX, MDAX, and SDAX companies published in the news section of the FTD between 2006 and 2010, our results show that articles that contain...</para>

This study examines if journalists are affected by attention stimuli similar to that of individual investors. Applying logistic regression technique, we find that journalists focus on attention grabbing stocks when publishing their buy and sell recommendations. Thereby, journalists intensify the...