[jamesie]

this is a poor headline. the latimes.com seems to imply causality between the two events when in fact, twitter fell 7% as well. So they could have written "Twitter falls 7% on Oculus deal"

[lutorm]

Market news writers seem to always think they can attribute the market change to some event, even though they have no idea. This irks me to no end.

[jimmytidey]

I guess you might have quite a short career as a market writer if you didn't want to link events to prices. You'd certainly write very short articles.

[jamesie]

Are you saying that wouldn't be a good thing?

Automate this... <stock ticker> <fell|climbed> <x>% on <top company event of the day> - it's still be wrong but at least it wouldn't waste a writer's time.