Commodity Prices and News Stories

Keywords shown above for each month were found by tokenizing news stories, stemming the tokens and then calculating a term frequency-inverse document frequency score.

Popular Keywords - Months when Price Fell

The word clouds represent words that were popular for each month the price rose/fell from the previous month. The size of the word is relative to the number of times it featured in a news headline during that month.

Popular Keywords - Months when Price Rose

Datasets Used

  • IMF Primary Commodity Prices - Monthly Data: http://www.imf.org/external/np/res/commod/index.aspx
  • Daily News for Stock Market Prediction - Kaggle - Dataset created by Aaron7Sun - https://www.kaggle.com/aaron7sun/stocknews