News sentiment coverage by year: how many tagged insights, and the share downbeat
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 2026-07-16, from Buy When Others Are Fearful: The Data.
| year | tagged_insights | negative_pct |
|---|---|---|
| 2024 | 76067 | 16.6 |
| 2025 | 140007 | 16.5 |
| 2026 | 103206 | 19.1 |
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- 3 × 3
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- No missing values
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- US exchange, SIP and OPRA market data
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What each column holds
| Column | Type | Range | Notes |
|---|---|---|---|
year |
text | 3 distinct values (2024, 2025, 2026) | |
tagged_insights |
number | 76,067 to 140,007 | |
negative_pct |
number | 16.5 to 19.1 | percent |
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
SELECT toString(toYear(published_utc)) AS year, count() AS tagged_insights,
round(100.0 * countIf(JSONExtractString(ins,'sentiment')='negative') / count(), 1) AS negative_pct
FROM global_markets.stocks_news ARRAY JOIN insights AS ins
WHERE JSONExtractString(ins,'sentiment') != ''
GROUP BY year ORDER BY year
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