2020 U.S. Elections: Polls, Key Issues, and Industry Sectors Closest to Candidates

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In the last 3 months, interest in Biden has grown 80% compared to + 30% for Trump, especially after the televised debate. The Republican candidate also appears to have emancipated himself from a negative association with Wall Street performance, which has so far favored Trump. The world of utilities likes it, waiting for the new green pact while worrying the more traditional sectors, unlike the adversary.

These are some of the evidences that emerge from the analysis made by FinScience, a fintech company of the Datrix group, on the campaign for the US elections. The data that emerges is provided exclusively to Sole 24 Ore for the creation of a scorecard in Lab24 that will accompany us with numbers and graphs until the vote on November 3. The Italian company, founded in 2017, collects and analyzes non-standard data to analyze financial markets with artificial intelligence systems.

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‘Our algorithms can follow different topics. We started dealing with the US presidential elections starting with the primaries. Then some candidates. And of individual issues and investment sectors associated with the elections. A kind of cascading graph that varies over time ”, explains Fabrizio Milano d’Aragona, CEO and co-founder of LifeScience, a former manager of Google Italy of which he was one of the first employees.

The FinScience analysis, by Alessio Garzonio, Investment Specialist, and Ilaria Bianchini, Head of Research Technology, extracts this value by conducting an analysis that examines the dissemination of news related to candidates on social networks. At the same time, the analysis looks at the “sentiment”, which is the tone of the news regarding the candidates. The sentiment of politicians in general is usually very negative, both because of the media coverage in US newspapers and because mostly negative news is shared.