AI-Driven Financial Foresight

Trump is moving global markets through his Social Media messages, in the below example, Crude Oil dropped up to 3% based on his messages about ending the Ukraine War. Let us know if you'd like more information about our low-latency news and social media data feeds.

Another week of Tariff discussion, with several companies on the positive side of sentiment due to relief of Tariff fears. The image shows companies associated with tariffs ranked from most to least positive over the past week, according to news and social media. Note Amazon is being said to evade the worst of tariff pain. Nucor is a U.S. steelmaker likely to benefit from 25% tariffs on non-US steel. Whaleco (Temu) got a reprieve from Trump's proposal to tax packages from China.

We're excited to announce that the MarketPsych Data WRDS Edition for both financial and ESG themes and sentiments are now available for research here on WRDS.The dataset is unparalleled in its global news and social media coverage. It uniquely provide sentiment, emotion, and thematic scores for every financial asset including real estate, interest rates, and cryptocurrencies. A point-in-time ESG data set is also available.SUMMARY: MarketPsych WRDS Edition (MWE) includes Buzz and Sentiment scores - derived from thousands of global news and social media sources dating back to 1998 - for dozens of topics across more than 42 sectors and industries, 275 equity indices, 170 currencies, 3,000 locations, 130,000 companies, 112 commodities, and 600 cryptocurrencies. The ESG version includes ESG Buzz and Sentiment scores for dozens of ESG topics across 130,000 companies and 250 countries and territories. Data is published separately for news and social media. MarketPsych's data is used by researchers and quants in over 25 countries. MarketPsych's data has been extensively researched in academic and industry studies and has appeared in over 300 academic papers in top finance journals, including the Journal of Finance, Energy Economics, Journal of Portfolio Management, and the Journal of Financial Economics.Please visit us on WRDS or respond to this email if you'd like more information or sample data. And please note, MarketPsych's data is also available via the London Stock Exchange Group (LSEG)).Best wishesThe MarketPsych Data Team

Companies ranked by the negativity of tariffs for their businesses, summarized from the past 7-days of media about these companies. The lowest ranked is Constellation Brands, who imports alcoholic beverages into the automotive companies occupy most of the bottom 10. There is concern about tariff blowback onto Palantir and Nvidia. METHODOLOGY: Sentences with more than 30 co-occurrences of a company name and synonyms of "Tariffs" (import taxes, etc...) in a single sentence were selected from the past 7 days. The average sentiment of those sentences was calculated and is represented in the length of the blue bar in the image below, where a longer bar indicates more negative sentiment.

Publicly-traded companies associated with DeepSeek AI ranked from most positive to most negative portrayals by the media. On the positive side, Apple could use cheap AI in it's phones and AMD's chips can be used to create DeepSeek-like models. On the negative side, ASML (excellent AI without their extreme Ultraviolet), Oracle (just announced billions of investment in the unnecessary(?) StarGate), and Broadcom (designing for NVDA). Contact us to learn more about the power of real-time NLP for discerning market trends.

Nanotechnology is 2025's most positively-discussed industry in global business media. In 2024 Robotics was top, and it is ranked third for 2025. See image below for the 2025 rankings and the top publicly-traded nanotech companies (ranked by mention count, not by quality - DYOD).

New paper on greenwashing detection by combining Slow (filings-based) vs Fast-moving (media-based) ESG scores. Blog post with paper link here: Slow and fast ESG scores: what do they tell us? Thanks to the diligent research efforts of Svetlana Borovkova and Probability & Partners. Data provided by LSEG Data & Analytics.

We assessed the sentiment of all companies mentioned in media referencing tariffs in the past 3 days. We ranked the companies by their average Tariff-associated sentiment and plotted them below. A minimum of five (5) references in the past 3 days was necessary to be on this list. There are a few surprises - some from the EV space below:1. BYD is positive because it is such a low-cost producer that even with high tariffs its cars will be relatively inexpensive in the U.S.2. Tesla is negative because of the retaliatory tariffs that China is likely to impose in any trade war, hurting Tesla's ability to sell in China plus raising the cost of cars produced at its Shanghai factory.3. Rivian is negative because its cars are already relatively expensive in the U.S. and it has a China-based supply chain, which will lead to even higher costs.