Does media coverage of a firm have a causal effect on the volatility of its stock price and, if so, is this of aggregate importance? This paper identifies a robust link between media coverage in the Financial Times print newspaper and a firm's intra-day stock price volatility. This effect is not...

Does media coverage of a firm have a causal effect on the volatility of its stock price and, if so, is this of aggregate importance? This paper identifies a robust link between media coverage in the Financial Times print newspaper and a firm’s intra-day stock price volatility. This effect is...

This paper studies the effect of investor sentiment on the London stock market on a daily basis over the period 1899 to 2010. We use a broad mix of reporting from the Financial Times as our proxy for investor sentiment. The main contribution of this paper is threefold. First, newspaper...