/Brexit-Sentiment

Predict movement in the stock market based on sentiment on Brexit

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Brexit Sentiment Analysis

Purpose

What effect does positive/negative news articles affect the UK stock markets and the GBP?

For simplicity, we will be using the:

  • iShares MSCI UK ETF to represent large UK companies;
  • iShares MSCI UK Small-cap ETF to represent small uk companies; and
  • GBP/USD and GBP/EUR to represent the strenght of the pound.

Set up

Install Requirements

$ pip install -r requirements/requirements.txt

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