Headline coverage by size of daily move: 36 large caps, May to July 2026
Answered against 22 years of US equities and 12 years of US options data and published with the query that produced it. This result is stored as of 2026-08-01, from AI Daily Market Research Reports: What Breaks.
| move_bucket | ticker_day_count | pct_with_headline | avg_headlines |
|---|---|---|---|
| moved 5% or more | 54 | 94.4 | 4.4 |
| moved 3% to 5% | 190 | 70.5 | 4.1 |
| moved 2% to 3% | 292 | 70.9 | 3.7 |
| moved 1% to 2% | 638 | 68.8 | 3.4 |
| moved under 1% | 1094 | 67.2 | 3 |
- Rows × columns
- 5 × 4
- Computed
- Completeness
- No missing values
- Source
- US exchange, SIP and OPRA market data
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What each column holds
| Column | Type | Range | Notes |
|---|---|---|---|
move_bucket |
text | 5 distinct values | |
ticker_day_count |
number | 54 to 1,094 | count |
pct_with_headline |
number | 67.2 to 94.4 | percent |
avg_headlines |
number | 3 to 4.4 |
Computed from Strasmore's warehouse of US exchange, SIP and OPRA market data. Equity prices are delayed; options greeks and implied volatility are end-of-day. This result is stored, not recomputed on load — it is exactly the numbers that were returned on , and the query below is what returned them.
the exact SQL behind every number
WITH moves AS (
SELECT ticker,
toDate(toTimeZone(window_start, 'America/New_York')) AS d,
(argMax(close, window_start) / argMin(open, window_start) - 1) * 100 AS move_pct
FROM global_markets.delayed_stocks_minute_aggs
WHERE ticker IN ('AAPL','MSFT','NVDA','AMZN','GOOGL','META','TSLA','AVGO','JPM','XOM',
'JNJ','WMT','PG','KO','HD','CVX','MRK','PEP','COST','CSCO',
'ORCL','CRM','AMD','NFLX','DIS','BA','CAT','IBM','T','VZ',
'PFE','NKE','MCD','UNH','BAC','QCOM')
AND toDate(toTimeZone(window_start, 'America/New_York')) >= toDate('2026-05-01')
AND toDate(toTimeZone(window_start, 'America/New_York')) <= toDate('2026-07-31')
AND (toHour(toTimeZone(window_start, 'America/New_York')) * 60
+ toMinute(toTimeZone(window_start, 'America/New_York'))) BETWEEN 570 AND 959
GROUP BY ticker, d
),
headlines AS (
SELECT arrayJoin(tickers) AS ticker,
toDate(toTimeZone(published_utc, 'America/New_York')) AS d,
count() AS articles
FROM global_markets.stocks_news
WHERE published_utc >= toDateTime('2026-05-01 04:00:00')
AND published_utc < toDateTime('2026-08-01 04:00:00')
AND hasAny(tickers, ['AAPL','MSFT','NVDA','AMZN','GOOGL','META','TSLA','AVGO','JPM','XOM',
'JNJ','WMT','PG','KO','HD','CVX','MRK','PEP','COST','CSCO',
'ORCL','CRM','AMD','NFLX','DIS','BA','CAT','IBM','T','VZ',
'PFE','NKE','MCD','UNH','BAC','QCOM'])
GROUP BY ticker, d
),
joined AS (
SELECT multiIf(abs(m.move_pct) >= 5, 'moved 5% or more',
abs(m.move_pct) >= 3, 'moved 3% to 5%',
abs(m.move_pct) >= 2, 'moved 2% to 3%',
abs(m.move_pct) >= 1, 'moved 1% to 2%',
'moved under 1%') AS move_bucket,
multiIf(abs(m.move_pct) >= 5, 5,
abs(m.move_pct) >= 3, 4,
abs(m.move_pct) >= 2, 3,
abs(m.move_pct) >= 1, 2,
1) AS bucket_rank,
ifNull(h.articles, 0) AS articles
FROM moves AS m
LEFT JOIN headlines AS h ON m.ticker = h.ticker AND m.d = h.d
)
SELECT move_bucket,
count() AS ticker_day_count,
round(100 * countIf(articles > 0) / count(), 1) AS pct_with_headline,
round(avg(articles), 1) AS avg_headlines
FROM joined
GROUP BY move_bucket, bucket_rank
ORDER BY bucket_rank DESC
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