Abstract
© 2020 Elsevier B.V. This paper examines whether financial news moves CDS spreads for a large number of U.S. stocks sorted into 19 panels consisting of sectors, sizes and credit quality. Using a unique financial news data set, we discover that while both positive and negative news predicts CDS spread changes in most of the panels, annualised mean–variance profits and utility gains are dominated by forecasting models that use positive news as a predictor. At best, risk factors only account for around 31% of observed profits.
RAS ID
32579
Document Type
Journal Article
Date of Publication
3-31-2021
Volume
29
School
School of Business and Law
Creative Commons License
This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-Noncommercial-No Derivative Works 4.0 License.
Publisher
Elsevier
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Comments
This is an author's accepted manuscript of: Narayan, P. K., & Bannigidadmath, D. (2021). Financial news and CDS spreads. Journal of Behavioral and Experimental Finance, 29, article 100448. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jbef.2020.100448