Are Institutions Informed About News?

62 Pages Posted: 27 Jul 2014

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Terrence Hendershott

University of California, Berkeley - Haas School of Business

Dmitry Livdan

University of California, Berkeley

Norman Schuerhoff

Swiss Finance Institute - HEC Lausanne

Date Written: July 18, 2014

Abstract

This paper combines daily non-public data on buy and sell volume by institutions from 2003 through 2005 for NYSE-listed stocks with all news announcements from Reuters. Natural language processing categorizes the sentiment associated with each news story. We use institutional order flow (buy volume minus sell volume) as a quantitative measure of net trading by institutions. We find evidence that institutional investors are informed: i) institutional trading volume predicts the occurrence of news announcements; ii) institutional order flow predicts the sentiment of the news; iii) institutional order flow predicts the stock market reaction on news announcement days; iv) institutional order flow predicts the stock market reaction on crisis news days; v) institutional order flow predicts earnings announcement surprises; and vi) institutions do not believe the hype.

Suggested Citation

Hendershott, Terrence J. and Livdan, Dmitry and Schuerhoff, Norman, Are Institutions Informed About News? (July 18, 2014). Swiss Finance Institute Research Paper No. 14-49, Available at SSRN: https://ssrn.com/abstract=2468187 or http://dx.doi.org/10.2139/ssrn.2468187

Terrence J. Hendershott

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Dmitry Livdan

University of California, Berkeley ( email )

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Norman Schuerhoff (Contact Author)

Swiss Finance Institute - HEC Lausanne ( email )

Chavannes-près-Renens
Switzerland

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