Researcher: Gift Mahlatse Mphahlele, University of the Witwatersrand, Johannesburg
Supervisor: TBA
This study aimed to investigate the nature of the relationship between the global news sentiment with the local news sentiment and exchange rates for two countries, South Africa and Nigeria. The transformer architecture was used to do sentiment analysis through a sentiment analysis pipeline. The Pearson’s correlation test showed that there is no significant relationship between the global news sentiment with the local news sentiment and exchange rates for both the countries News Bias and Fairness in Emerging Markets.
