Visualizing the Financial Impact of Presidential Tweets on Stock Markets

TL;DR

This paper investigates how presidential tweets, specifically from Donald Trump, influence stock market movements by analyzing micro-blogging data and financial news to identify correlations between tweet sentiment and equity index fluctuations.

Contribution

It introduces a method to visualize the financial impact of presidential tweets on stock markets using data analysis of social media and news sources.

Findings

Presidential tweets significantly correlate with stock market changes.

Market sentiment shifts can be linked to specific tweets.

The analysis provides a visualization of the impact over time.

Abstract

As more and more data being created every day, all of it can help take better decisions with data analysis. It is not different from data generated in financial markets. Here we examine the process of how the global economy is affected by the market sentiment influenced by the micro-blogging data (tweets) of American President Donald Trump. The news feed is gathered from The Guardian and Bloomberg from the period between December 2016 and October 2019, which are used to further identify the potential tweets that influenced the markets as measured by changes in equity indices.