September 30, 2008

CNBC Ratings Seem Correlated To Future Market Volatility




cnbc and vix 9-26.JPG

Following up on a crazy idea I had earlier.

The floating pink between 8/11 and 8/22 is CNBC's airing of the Olympics, which skews the data.  Ignoring that, you can see a pretty clear relationship between CNBC's average daily ratings and market volatility (VIX).  It also appears that the ratings anticipate the VIX by two days, or so.

I only have CNBC ratings to Friday, 9/26/08; but I have VIX data for the next two days.  9/29 was Black Monday, Dow -777.

These two are highly correlated.  Starting from 8/23/08, the Pearson's r is .889, which, if remember my college statistics, is way better than a sharp stick in the eye.  (If anyone out there knows a better test to use, please let me know.)




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