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finance · sector mood
1997
year mood +0.17 · -0.26 to +0.40 across 12 mo
Monthly mood
bearish −1 +1 bullish
-0.5 -0.25 0 +0.25 +0.5 Jan Feb Mar Apr May Jun +0.40 Jul Aug Sep Oct Nov Dec -0.26
month values ▾
JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDec
+0.35+0.35+0.35+0.30+0.35+0.40+0.35+0.30-0.06-0.24-0.21-0.26

US finance boomed on a raging bull market, Amazon's IPO, and consolidation (Travelers-Salomon), even as the Asian crisis (Thai baht float, October 27 mini-crash) introduced volatility. Capital fleeing EM into US assets actually helped an owner's book;

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 1997
Oct
Hong Kong's Hang Seng plunges nearly 10 percent amid peg-defense rate hikes npr.org →

Hong Kong's stock market suffered its worst one-day drop in a decade as the monetary authority raised interbank rates sharply to defend the Hong Kong dollar peg against speculative attack. The rout came as Asian crisis contagion intensified and set the stage for a broader global selloff days later. The Hang Seng would fall further before stabilizing.

Nov
South Korea seeks IMF bailout as won collapses npr.org →

South Korea turned to the International Monetary Fund for emergency assistance as the won plunged and the country's foreign reserves neared depletion. It was the largest bailout the IMF had arranged at the time, eventually totaling near $60 billion with other lenders. The crisis exposed heavy short-term dollar debt at Korean banks and conglomerates.