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@article{195250,
        author = {Divyansh Singh and Sayali Patil and Tushar Subashchandra pradhan},
        title = {How Financial News Shapes the Way Investors Think and Act: A Study of Stock Market Sentiment},
        journal = {International Journal of Innovative Research in Technology},
        year = {2026},
        volume = {12},
        number = {10},
        pages = {7200-7208},
        issn = {2349-6002},
        url = {https://ijirt.org/article?manuscript=195250},
        abstract = {Each day millions of investors make investment decisions buy or sell or hold and a large part of what influences those decisions is the news people consume. Financial reporting has a remarkable ability to influence the state of the market, and this study seeks to understand just how it does. By designing a detailed questionnaire and administering it to 100 individuals, ranging from working professionals to active investors to students, we set out to examine how good news and bad news financial headlines influence people decision making styles. What we found is startling: almost everyone we surveyed believed that news (good or bad) makes a difference in how investors behave; many also indicated that they use news as the lens through which they read the market. Besides looking at individual preferences, our research also provides insight into the burgeoning field of sentiment indicators, measures that are now being used to identify market trends. We are in the process of analysing the data we collected and hope that it will provide a human perspective to a market statistic.},
        keywords = {stock market sentiment, news headlines, investor behaviour, sentiment analysis, financial news},
        month = {March},
        }