94 Quantifying news: Alternative metrics
Table 3.3.
t-statistics for the significance of each Thomson Reuters NewsScope Event Index with respect to the returns of 16 currency pairs.
Currency pair
Index
AUD CAD CAD CHF EUR EUR EUR EUR GBP GBP GBP JPY MXN NOK NZD NZDUSD USD JPY USD USD CAD GBP JPY USD AUD JPY USD USD USD USD EUR
ASIA
0.7
0.4 0.6
0.4
0.6
0.1
0.0
0.5 0.8
0.9 0.5 0.2 —
1.0 0.1 0.2
Agricultural topics
0.6
1.5 1.0
0.9
0.9
0.5
0.2
0.5 1.1
0.1 0.4
0.2
0.1
0.8 0.2 0.1
Banking keywords
0.0
0.5 0.5
0.3
0.1
0.0
0.0
0.5
0.3
0.9
0.3
0.7
1.0
0.1 0.4
0.1
Bearish keywords
1.4
0.3 1.5
0.2
0.0
0.0
0.5
1.1 0.7 0.0 2.1 1.8
1.5 0.6 0.3 0.2
Bonds topics
0.5
0.1 0.6
0.0
0.1
0.0
0.0
0.0
0.1
0.7 0.5 0.3
0.7 0.0
0.1 0.2
Bullish keywords
0.4
0.0 0.4
0.3
0.6
0.0
0.4
0.2
0.1
0.7 0.4 0.2 1.2 0.4
0.5
0.1
Central bank keywords
0.0
0.0 0.2
0.4
0.3
0.1
0.3
0.5 0.3 0.0
0.4
0.3
0.9
0.5
0.2
0.3
Central
bank topics
0.0
0.2 0.2
0.5
0.8
0.2
0.8
0.6 0.0 0.7
0.4
0.1 0.2 0.5
0.5 0.5
Corporate keywords
0.8
0.1
0.5
0.2
0.6
0.1
0.4
0.2 0.0 0.6
0.2 0.1 0.1 0.3
0.1
0.1
Credit topics
0.0
0.0 0.8
0.5
0.0
0.0
0.1
0.2
0.4 0.6 0.0 0.4 0.1 0.2
0.3
0.1
EUROPE
0.3
0.5 0.1
0.2
0.0
0.1
0.3
0.1 0.2
0.2 0.2 0.0
1.3 0.1 0.2 0.0
Economic topics
0.3
0.3
0.1
0.0
0.3
0.2
0.5
0.6
0.6 0.2
0.9
0.6 0.1 0.2 0.0 0.2
Emerging markets topics
0.1
0.0 0.6
0.1
0.3
0.1
0.1
0.2 0.7 0.3
0.6
0.2 0.0 0.3 0.8 0.1
Emotional keywords
0.1
0.5 0.7
0.4
0.3
0.0
0.0
0.0
0.2
0.7
0.1 0.1 0.5 0.3
0.3
0.2
Energy topics
0.1
0.6
0.6
0.7
0.1
0.3
0.4
0.3
0.1
0.3
1.0
0.5
0.5
0.2 0.4 0.2
Finance keywords
0.3
0.5
0.4
0.1
0.1
0.3
0.1
0.2
0.1
1.3
0.6
0.2
0.2
0.2 0.1 0.2
Foreign exchange keywords 0.0
0.3 2.1
1.0
0.9
0.4
0.4
0.5
0.2 2.0 1.3 1.4
1.7 0.1 0.4 0.3
Foreign exchange topics
0.2
1.0
1.4
1.2
1.2
0.0
0.8
0.3
0.4 0.9 0.0 0.6
1.0 0.4 0.0 0.1
GB
0.1
0.6
0.9
0.7
0.8
0.8
0.8
0.1 0.0 0.0
0.7
0.5
0.6
0.3 0.0
0.3
JP
0.1
0.4
0.5
0.2
0.3
0.2
0.5
0.1 0.4
1.2 0.0 0.3
0.2
0.3
0.5 0.2