Financial Media as a Money Doctor: Evidence from Refinancing Decisions

Abstract After retiring from The Suze Orman Show, Suze Orman remained highly visible across media. Recently, she returned with her revised bestseller Women and Money (2018a) and a weekly podcast timed to coincide with #metoo. Across media, Orman has utilized the affect associated with feminine media genres, including self-help and makeover shows, to promote a lifestyle based on proper financial self-management. Her advice to women about marriage, motherhood, and filial duty makes it clear that such discipline is particularly gendered. Orman both uses and chafes against feminist discourses to frame finance as another problem to be managed for women. I understand Orman’s advice as affective through her use of fear, shame, and pride to promote individualized financialization at the expense of interpersonal relationships. My unique approach brings affect theory to financial media through analysis of Orman’s media texts.

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The Financial Media as Institutional Trust Agencies

Emotions in Finance ◽

10.1017/cbo9781139195041.004 ◽

2004 ◽

pp. 43-66

Keyword(s):

Institutional Trust ◽

Financial Media

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Merger Speculation in Financial Media: The Valuation of Investigative Reporting

SSRN Electronic Journal ◽

10.2139/ssrn.2511899 ◽

2014 ◽

Author(s):

Chris Yost-Bremm ◽

Ian Handfelt

Keyword(s):

Investigative Reporting ◽

Financial Media

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The Impact of Financial Information on Noise Traders: Based on the Perspective of Behavioral Finance

Financial Forum ◽

10.18282/ff.v9i1.811 ◽

2020 ◽

Vol 9 (1) ◽

pp. 28

Author(s):

Miao Jiang

Keyword(s):

Stock Market ◽

Behavioral Finance ◽

Investor Behavior ◽

Individual Investors ◽

Noise Traders ◽

Healthy Development ◽

Noise Trading ◽

Financial Media ◽

The Impact ◽

Excessive Noise

<p>In China's incomplete stock market which mainly consists of retail games and short-term operations, both of the high stock turnover rate and P/E ratios reflect excessive noise trading. This article focuses on the characteristic that individual investors are susceptible to financial media information, combined with the development and characteristics of financial media. From the perspective of behavioral finance, this paper analyzes the impact of financial media on noise trading. Using behavioral finance and psychology-related knowledge, investor behavior can be better understood, so as the motivation behind noise trading. Finally, in order to promote the healthy development of the stock market, this paper makes recommendations to improve the efficiency of the capital market.</p>

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