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What is a Development?

Real-world event or incident, at a particular time, that marks a strategic milestone or strategic development.

Updated over 2 weeks ago

Every day, HolonOS reads half a million signals from over 50,000 sources in 100+ countries. In real-time, we identify the key strategic developments, organizations and people shaping the global impact economy.

A Development is a real-world event or incident, at a particular time, that marks a strategic milestone or strategic development for an organization, market, sector or geography.
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Every Development on the platform includes:

  • A short machine learning generated summary of the development

  • Classifications on the development type, significance and sentiment

  • Industry and Geographic Classifications

  • An image from one of the sources, HolonOS inferred this Development from.

  • Organizations and People who are mentioned by the source signals as related to the Development.

  • Key Quotes and Numbers identified by HolonOS when reading through the sources

  • The source Signals including press releases, wires, news articles and company announcements but not including opinions, editorials or other non-event-based documents.

Development Categories

HolonIQ classifies each Development into one of the following categories and sub categories. The categories including:

  • Growth

  • Policy

  • Recognition

  • People

  • Event

  • Negative

  • Research

  • Private Funding

  • M&A

  • Public Offering

  • Project Finance

More details can be found in the Global Development Taxonomy.

Significance

HolonOS assigns a significance scores to each development. These ratings are absolute global scores and are not relative to each market. Significance scores range between 0 and 9.
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The following general guide applies to impact ratings:

  • 6-9. Major developments are often considered significant events across more than one region and/or sector. They have global or multi-region impact either directly or indirectly.

  • 3-5. Medium developments are significant within one region or sector.

  • 0-2. Minor developments impact certain countries and sectors or sub-sectors specifically. They may mark a small but important milestone.

Sentiment

The general market sentiment of a development is classified as positive, negative or neutral. This reflects overall sentiment, given that specific sentiment will vary for different parties e.g. a regulatory development can be positive for some and negative for others.

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