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The Financial Crisis Media Sentiment Index
Updated: Oct 10, 2008
The following figure reflects the evolution of the presence financial crisis articles in the press, related to different countries and groups of countries, according to global media printed in english.
We have taken the situation by October 7 2008 as reference value 100. In comparison with October numbers, financial crisis was a non issue from March 2008 to mid August 2008.
Just in a couple of days, news related to financial crisis are just exploding. This is particularly the case for articles referring to UK and Japan.
This Index will be regularly updated.
Subprime and the crisis in the media
Updated: October 10, 2008
Subprime mortgages are pointed out from the very beginning as the main ignitor of the present crisis.
We show in the following figure the evolution of the subprime related news in comparison with the emergence of the economic and financial crisis related news. While subprime has been a hot issue for more than a year, it was not related as anouncing the financial crisis till october. The date of the figure is elaborated from news rewerring to OECD member countries.
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