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Market Reaction to iPhone Rumors

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  • Chong, Terence Tai Leung
  • Wu, Zhang
  • Liu, Yuchen

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The paper studies the effects of new product rumors about the iPhone on the stock price of the Apple company. We scrape iPhone rumors from Macrumors.com, and obtain a dataset covering 1,264 articles containing 180 words on average bet-ween January 2002 and December 2015. Moreover, we construct a market-decided lexicon to transform qualitative information into quantitative data, and analyze what type of words and what information embedded in the rumors are apt to impact on Apple's stock price. Unlike previous studies, we do not rely on the widely-adopted Harvard-IV-4 dictionary, as the coefficients of the words from the dictionary are neither significant nor consistent with their polarities, compared with our results. The paper obtains three main findings. First, the spread of rumors has a significant impact on the stock price. Second, positive words, rather than negative words, play an important role in affecting the stock price. Third, the stock price is highly sensitive to the words related to the appearance of the iPhone.

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  • Chong, Terence Tai Leung & Wu, Zhang & Liu, Yuchen, 2019. "Market Reaction to iPhone Rumors," MPRA Paper 92014, University Library of Munich, Germany.
    • Handle: RePEc:pra:mprapa:92014
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    Keywords

    stock price; iPhone; rumors; market-decided lexicon;
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    • G14 - Financial Economics - - General Financial Markets - - - Information and Market Efficiency; Event Studies; Insider Trading

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