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Unbelievable: Berkshire-Hathaway Stock Goes Up When Anne Hathaway Is in the News
- personalcompute 16y agoNot at all 'Unbelievable', stop with the sensationalist crap. The difference is not statistically significant. (Every single change for the days that she supposedly influenced is not remotely unusual whatsoever, check their history)
- jedwhite 16y agoThere are numerous firms trying to use automated trading platforms to attempt to analyse social media to detect sentiment around brands, companies and sectors and trading on the results, although it's early days. The observations by the author of both this post and the original HuffPo piece are casual but the area is interesting. It would have been better to compare the the movement on those days to one of the broader stock indexes, like the S&P 500 or Russell 2000 etc. Relative movement to the broader market compared to the typical variance would give a better picture. BTW I believe HN etiquette is to not modify Titles from source posts gratuitously.