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How media coverage news and global uncertainties drive forecast of cryptocurrencies returns?
Nader Naifar1, Sohale Altamimi1, Fatimah Alshahrani2
1Imam Mohammad Ibn Saud Islamic University (IMSIU), Riyadh, Saudi Arabia.
Abstract:
This paper aims to investigate the impact of global financial, economic, and gold price uncertainty indices (VIX, EPU, and GVZ) and investor sentiment based on media coverage news on the returns of Bitcoin and Ethereum during the COVID-19 pandemic. We adopt an asymmetric framework based on the Quantile-on-Quantile approach, which examines the quantiles of the cryptocurrency returns, investor sentiment, and the various uncertainties indicators. The empirical findings suggest that the COVID-19 pandemic has significantly impacted cryptocurrency returns. Specifically, (i) the results demonstrate the predictive power of Economic Policy Uncertainty (EPU) during this period, as evidenced by a strong negative association between EPU and cryptocurrency returns across all quantiles; (ii) the correlation between cryptocurrency returns and the VIX index was negative but weak, across various quantile combinations of Ethereum and Bitcoin returns; (iii) an increase in COVID-19 news negatively affected Bitcoin returns across all quantiles; (iv) Bitcoin and Ethereum cannot be relied upon as effective hedging tools against global financial and economic uncertainty during the COVID-19 pandemic. Studying the behavior of cryptocurrency during uncertainty like pandemics is extremely important because it provides investors with insights on diversifying their portfolios and hedging their risks.
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