This time last year, we revealed our inaugural Word of the Year.
We used our proprietary natural language processing (NLP) framework to analyse trends in the changes in words used during companies' quarterly earnings calls. These models form part of our systematic assessment of over 20,000 individual companies. Based on this analysis, 'tariffs' was our Word of the Year for 2018. So what have companies been talking about in 2019? Our analysis of the transcripts has revealed that the 'Word of the Year' for 2019 is 'macro'. Our research has shown that investors across the world became much more focused on economic conditions and their potential imp...
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