Nayanjyoti Bhattacharjee; Anupam De

doi:10.2478/saeb-2018-0001

Authors

Nayanjyoti Bhattacharjee
Anupam De

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.2478/saeb-2018-0001

Keywords:

corporate news, event study, industry classification, abnormal return, trading volume

Abstract

In this paper, we provide a cross-industry perspective on the market reaction to different corporate news in the context of Indian stock market. We have studied the price and volume movements associated with eight broadly defined news categories namely Analyst Calls, Earnings, Earnings Forecasts, Finance, Legal and Regulatory, Management, Operations and Restructuring. We have employed the standard event study methodology on a sample of stocks listed on the National Stock Exchange of India for the purpose of our study. We observe that the market reaction to firm specific corporate news varies according to the type of news across different industry groups. We also observe that the sentiment of the news is a critical factor which influences the market reaction to such news flow across industry groups. We also provide a cross- industry perspective on the relative importance of different corporate news categories after taking into account the sentiment of the news in the context of Indian stock market.

JEL Codes - G12; G14

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