language:fr size_categories:10K<n<100K format:csv modality:tabular modality:text library:datasets library:pandas library:mlcroissant library:polars region:us
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> [!NOTE]
> Dataset origin: https://www.kaggle.com/datasets/arcticgiant/french-financial-news

## Context

This dataset contains around 41 500 french news from 11/2018 to 03/2021 scraped on a famous financial media website.
For ease of use I’v add English translation (Helsinki-NLP/opus-mt-fr-en) and sentiment analysis (VADER)

## Analysis

The picture below show the effect of covid crisis on news sentiment (Purple) and CAC40 (Blue).
We see clearly a link between the news sentiment and the stocks market
(Note : March 2020: The covid crisis break down / November 2020: Release of the pfizer vaccine)