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finance · sector mood
1996
year mood
+0.32
· -0.26 to +0.40 across 12 mo
Monthly mood
bearish −1
+1 bullish
month values ▾
| Jan | Feb | Mar | Apr | May | Jun | Jul | Aug | Sep | Oct | Nov | Dec |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| +0.35 | +0.40 | +0.35 | +0.40 | +0.40 | +0.35 | +0.30 | +0.35 | +0.40 | +0.40 | -0.26 | +0.35 |
Telecommunications Act unleashes M&A wave
How this mood is scored ▾
Each day the model reads that day's news for the sector and asks, as someone who owns assets or
makes their living in it: how am I feeling this month, and why?
The month's mood is that running answer, tied to the specific events driving it (the story shown
above). It leans on trusted, higher-impact reporting, and on the prior month when a month is
quiet, so one loud headline can't swing it. The read updates daily through
the month; once a month ends, its mood is locked.
This year is read live from the news the pipeline actually collected (hover a bar for its story count).
· last computed Jul 06, 2026
Top finance stories of 1996
Nov
Japan announces Big Bang deregulation of its financial markets by 2001
brookings.edu →
Prime Minister Hashimoto unveiled the Big Bang program to make Tokyo's markets free, fair and global, liberalizing brokerage commissions, foreign exchange and cross-entry among banks, brokers and insurers. The reforms promised to redirect Japan's massive household savings. Foreign financial firms positioned for a newly opened Tokyo.