Financial news is known to move stock prices, for instance through company specific news events ("simple events") such as product recalls, earnings announcements, or mergers and acquisitions. In addition, further effects may be explained by the market sentiment trend extracted from the news. Due to the complexity of financial markets, it seems reasonable to assume that not all companies are equally responsive to such sentiment trends and that such responsiveness may change over time. To addre...
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RavenPack, a leading provider of news analytics technology and content, today announced a new real-time news sentiment analysis service that improves risk management and trading.

RavenPack News Scores gauges the health of global companies by weighing the balance of sentiment in articles published online by thousands of financial sites, newspapers, and blogs.

Powered by a proprietary text analysis platform, RavenPack analyzes stories published in all major news sources to look for key ev...

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