**Newspaper Headlines Predict Higher Stock Market Returns**.
A new study has found that newspaper headlines can be used to predict future stock market returns. The study, which was conducted by researchers at the University of California, Berkeley, found that headlines that are positive in tone are associated with higher stock market returns in the following month..
The study analyzed over 100,000 newspaper headlines from The New York Times and The Wall Street Journal over a 10-year period. The researchers used a computer program to analyze the tone of each headline and then compared the tone of the headlines to the S&P 500 index, a measure of the overall stock market..
The researchers found that headlines that were positive in tone were associated with higher stock market returns in the following month. For example, headlines that contained words like .
