The impact of news on South African sovereign bond yields

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Van der Westhuizen, Elizabeth-Ann
Brummer, L.M., 1940-
Van Schalkwyk, Cornelis Hendrik

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NISC Pty (Ltd) and Informa Limited (trading as Taylor and Francis Group)

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A reverse event study approach was used to investigate how the South African sovereign bond yield curve reacts to headline news. The change in daily yields, calculated as the difference between the natural log of zero-coupon yields on consecutive business days, were used in the analysis. Dates of abnormal daily yield changes were identified using GARCH models. News items for the sample period were classified into categories using supervised machine learning. A regression model was fitted to determine the link between the abnormal yield changes and the news categories. The results indicated that, for abnormal increases in yield (negative news), political news had an impact on all nodes. For abnormal decreases in yield (positive news), economic news had the greatest impact on the 10-year and political news on the 15- and 20-year nodes of the yield curve.

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Reverse event study, Headline news, News classification, Generalized autoregressive conditional heteroskedasticity (GARCH), GARCH models, Machine-learning, South African sovereign bond yield curve, SDG-01: No poverty, SDG-08: Decent work and economic growth

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SDG-01:No poverty
SDG-08:Decent work and economic growth

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Elizabeth-Ann van der Westhuizen, Leon Marx Brümmer & Cornelis Hendrik van Schalkwyk (2024) The impact of news on South African sovereign bond yields, Investment Analysts Journal, 53:1, 16-29, DOI: 10.1080/10293523.2023.2223436.