Wednesday, September 14, 2011

Analyzing Zero Hedge, v. 2.3

Continuing my project of classifying and tabulating Zero Hedge articles I present results from the past couple of days.  I am going to do this one more day, and see if it is worth the time it has taken.  I will probably THEN ask you readers for your comments...

I did NOT include several articles that did not really communicate much re ZH (RANsquawk, and a couple of others).

The below table shows number of articles reviewed by Category (Meme) over the past two days.  Note that I started about one half the way through yesterday, but for now, that does not matter.  N = 59 articles reviewed.

ZH_Current_Meme_Index, 14-Sep-2011

Category/Meme
# Articles
13-Sep
14-Sep
Banksters
2
2
BRICs
2
2
China/Europe
4
1
3
Economic Indicators
6
2
4
Europe/Default
19
5
14
Gold
2
2
Market Analysis
3
3
Munis
1
1
Obama
2
1
1
Obama/Scandal
1
1
Other
2
2
Political Left
1
1
Politics/General
1
1
Stocks/HFT
5
2
3
Treasuries
1
1


The below table is similar to the others I published over the past day or so.  For many ZH articles, there is an outlook by the author.  A "1" means a positive rating on the subject being reviewed.  A "-1" means a negative rating.  The one case of a "0" is because there was 1 positive and one negative review (Stocks/HFT).  Only 29 articles had a positive or negative spin on the subject at hand.


Category / Meme
Total, + / -
13-Sep
14-Sep
China/Europe
-2
-2
Economic Indicators
-3
-1
-2
Europe/Default
-17
-5
-12
Gold
1
1
Market Analysis
-2
-2
Obama
-1
-1
Obama/Scandal
-1
-1
Stocks/HFT
-2
-2
0


Comments:

1)  Clearly the "Europe/Default" meme was by far the biggest meme over the past 1 and 1/2 days.  I did see at Drudgereport (at least for a while) that Europe was the top headline there this afternoon.

2)  The second table above shows quite clearly that Zero Hedge is a "Bear's Paradise"...

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