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title: Financial Accounting Focus for Journalists
url: https://www.ml-quant.com/papers/ssrn/5145051/
site: ML-Quant (https://www.ml-quant.com)
updated: 2026-09-26
license: Summaries CC BY 4.0; links go to the original sources
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identifier: SSRN 5145051
source_url: https://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=5145051
featured: 2025-03-05
citations: unknown
topic: LLMs & Text
---


# Financial Accounting Focus for Journalists

Financial accounting-focused news articles result in higher trading volume and abnormal returns, particularly when stock prices are volatile and analyst forecasts vary.

- Source: https://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=5145051
- Identifier: SSRN 5145051
- Released: 2025-02-20
- First featured: Quant Letter No. 87 (2025-03-05): https://www.ml-quant.com/issues/2025-03-05/
- Citations (Semantic Scholar): not tracked
- Published in: not yet
- Topic: LLMs & Text

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