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

News Analytics uses cutting-edge NLP to produce outputs that measure company sentiment, relevance and novelty of text, along with other valuable metadata that can enrich trade signal detection for quant investment strategies, aid human decision making, and supplement market surveillance.

Content

Analytics on Reuters News, plus around 50 third-party news sources:

    – Delivers headlines and analytical scores on companies, commodities found in story text

    – Over 47,000 companies

    – 42 commodity and energy (C&E) topics

    – Document-level scores

Languages

    – English

    – Japanese: processed in native language, not translated

Main use cases

    – Quantitative trading

    – Market surveillance

    – Research and backtesting

Archives

    – Archives available

    – Back to 2003

Metadata

In addition to metadata from Real-time News, including headlines, adds NLP-based calculations:

    – Sentiment: positive, neutral, negative tone

    – Entity-level and document level

    – Relevance: importance of the entity to the news item

    – Novelty: similarity to previous news

    – Volume: number of recent mentions

    – Headline classification and headline analysis

    – Broker recommendation and price target flags and direction

Delivery frequency

    – Real-time

Format

    – Feed: JSON

    – Archive: JSON or Tabular

Delivery

    – API via Elektron® network

    – Secure large file delivery (SFTP)