Journal of Big Data

Table 4 Correlations between world leaders tweets/news articles and key national indexes

From: Comparing traditional news and social media with stock price movements; which comes first, the news or the price change?

Countries	Twitter p (r=0)	AP News p (r = 0)	Forbes p (r = 0)
UK	0.06898	0.3775	0.8945
Ireland	0.714	0.6275	< 0.0001
Canada	0.8328	0.2067	0.8683
NZ	N/A	0.5381	0.8562
Australia	0.5289	0.7957	0.6951

The only significant correlation is between Ireland and Forbes, with an R value of 0.6388, a very strong correlation

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