The impact of news on the South African sovereign bond market

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dc.contributor.advisor Brummer, L.M., 1940-
dc.contributor.coadvisor Van Schalkwyk, Cornelis Hendrik
dc.contributor.postgraduate Van der Westhuizen, Elizabeth-Ann
dc.date.accessioned 2023-03-08T13:16:40Z
dc.date.available 2023-03-08T13:16:40Z
dc.date.created 2023
dc.date.issued 2022
dc.description Thesis (PhD (Financial Management Sciences))--University of Pretoria, 2022. en_US
dc.description.abstract A reverse event study approach is used to investigate how the South African sovereign bond yield curve react to headline news. Abnormal return dates in the zero-coupon yields are identified using GARCH models on the daily return series and news items that are classified into categories using supervised machine learning. A regression model is fitted to determine the link between the abnormal daily returns and news categories. The results indicate that for abnormal increases in returns, indicating an increase in yield (negative news) the entire yield curve was impacted by political news and the medium term (5-year) was also impacted by international news. For abnormal decreases in returns, indicating a decrease in yields (positive news) political news had the greatest impact on the long end (15-and 20-year) of the yield curve, and economic news had the greatest impact on the medium term (10-year). en_US
dc.description.availability Unrestricted en_US
dc.description.degree PhD (Financial Management Sciences) en_US
dc.description.department Financial Management en_US
dc.identifier.citation * en_US
dc.identifier.doi https://doi.org/10.25403/UPresearchdata.21900771 en_US
dc.identifier.other A2023
dc.identifier.uri https://repository.up.ac.za/handle/2263/90028
dc.language.iso en en_US
dc.publisher University of Pretoria
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dc.subject Reverse event study en_US
dc.subject Headline news
dc.subject News classification
dc.subject GARCH models
dc.subject Machine-learning
dc.subject South African sovereign bond yield curve
dc.subject UCTD
dc.title The impact of news on the South African sovereign bond market en_US
dc.type Thesis en_US


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