TCRI Watchdog

While Part I establishes that news events generate identifiable market reactions, the informational content of news varies widely—from industry developments and financial disclosures to management changes and corporate crises. Event intensity alone is insufficient to explain these differences. Accordingly, this section decomposes news events into five categories (A, I, M, F, R) and examines whether markets respond systematically differently across news types.

Introduction: News as an Event-Based Market Signal In today’s highly real-time and information-saturated markets, news media no longer merely serve as post-hoc explanations of price movements. Instead, they have become a critical channel through which market expectations are formed and sentiment spreads. Compared with structured disclosures such as regulatory penalties or official disclosures via the […]

Great connecting with the global quant and data community at the Neudata Data Summit in New York! We enjoyed sharing how TEJ’s Point-in-Time Financials, alternative data for sentiment signals, and our Factor Library for the Taiwan market are helping investors build stronger models and uncover new insights.

TCRI Watchdog classifies all events into 5 major categories: Accounting, Industry Prospects, Management & Governance, Market Transactions, and Crisis Events. We analyze how each category affects stock prices, compare their reaction magnitudes and persistence, and highlight which types of information serve as the most important early-warning signals for investors.

Discover how TCRI Watchdog quantifies material announcements and reveals the asymmetric market impact of event intensity. Learn why negative events drive deeper, longer price reactions and how investors can use event-based signals to enhance risk monitoring and strategy design. We find that higher-ranked portfolios deliver significant short-term excess returns, while predictive power weakens over longer horizons. The results highlight the practical value of Point-in-Time financial data for quantitative factor investing and underscore its role in building replicable, data-driven investment strategies.

In Aug 2025, TEJ’s TCRI Webinar reviewed semiconductors, shipping, construction, and manufacturing, outlining key risks and opportunities amid global uncertainty.

On March 28, 2025, Taiwan Economic Journal (TEJ) hosted the "TCRI 2025 Industry Outlook Seminar," providing an in-depth analysis of the complex global economic landscape and its impact on Taiwanese industries. The seminar emphasized the burgeoning potential of AI technologies and covered international political and economic developments, challenges faced by traditional industries, and strategies for the electronics sector amidst trade wars and technological competition.​

TEJ has successfully undergone rigorous screening processes on both platforms, providing alternative data and point-in-time data for Asian stock markets. This empowers efficient information retrieval, resolving data collection challenges in investment research.

Introduction TEJ has been developing the Taiwan Corporate Risk Index (TCRI) for over 20 years, providing an effective and easily interpretable method for assessing risks and analyzing data. Our mission and goal have always been to promptly deliver significant and relevant information related to credit risks to our clients. In the Year of the Dog […]