News Services
Our News Service is the only programmatic news feed powered by Reuters for financial professionals. Common uses include macro and corporate actions, event-based trading, algorithmic and quantitative investment using sentiment and buzz metrics, risk and market surveillance based on company news flagged with select topic codes.
Overview
MRN Real-Time News is a structured textual news service powered by Reuters News. Both streaming feeds and deep historical archives can be delivered directly to applications, enabling algorithms to exploit the power of news by seizing opportunities, exploiting market inefficiencies and managing event risk.
Headlines can also be delivered from the Equinix NY4 Secaucus data centre as streamlined binary multicast mesages, ensuring fair distribution among connected customers. Please speak to your account manager about our Headlines Direct service.
Content
Textual News with headline, story body text, and metadata sourced from:
– Reuters News
– Third-party sources, including press releases and regulatory wires
Languages
– Reuters: 15 languages
Main use cases
– Quantitative trading
– Market surveillance
– Research and backtesting
Archives
– Archives available
– Back to 1996 for Reuters News
– Back to 2003 for many other sources
Metadata
– Topic codes: over 2,500 codes tagged to asset class, geography, events, industry, sector, etc.
– LSEG PermID: open organisational identifier
– Timestamps: normalised across all news sources, in UTC
Delivery frequency
– Real-time
Format
– Feed: JSON
– Archive: Text file
Delivery
– API via Elektron® network
– Secure large file delivery (SFTP)
