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Crosstalk is not investment advice. It counts how often phrases appear in
trade publications. It makes no recommendation to buy, sell or hold anything,
and it makes no forecast.
Testing was run three times on whether language spreading between sectors
precedes price movement — against public attention data, against link-sharing
data, and against ten years of SEC filings compared with sector prices. All
three found nothing. The last used 868 events across 42 quarters and returned a
breadth premium of −1.1 points at p = 0.62.
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Headlines, summaries, links, publication names and dates. Never article text.
Every publication is read through the RSS feed it publishes for that purpose.
What a feed provides — a headline and a short summary — is what is stored, along
with the link back to the original.
Full article text is not fetched, not stored and not shown. Every figure on the
site links to the publisher's own page, and reading the article means going
there.
Phrases are counted, not reproduced. A phrase counted here is two or three
words.
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Every figure is a count of articles actually read. Words crossing between sectors now, and how usage moved over the last 14 days. Nothing is modeled, estimated or inferred — the articles are linked so you can check any of it. Where a phrase appears in a summary a publisher syndicated, that sentence is quoted beneath the headline; the publisher's own page may since have been rewritten or put behind a paywall.
Which companies appear. A company is listed when it is named alongside a phrase that started in a different sector. A utility discussed using utility words tells you nothing; a carmaker discussed using materials words is the point. Firms written about only in their own sector's vocabulary are left out however often they are mentioned — this is not a coverage tracker.
What a crossing means. A phrase leaving its home sector means people in another sector have decided it concerns them too — a supply problem becoming a policy question, a technical constraint becoming a financial one. It says attention has moved. It does not say what will happen next, and nothing here is investment advice.
It makes no forecast. Testing found that neither a phrase accelerating nor spreading across sectors predicted what followed. “Rising” describes the last 14 days, not the next one.