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
The News Service on our data platform is a structured textual news service with news from Reuters and scores of newswires and exchanges. It includes enhancements such as intelligent tagging and other analytics from LSEG’s natural language processing (NLP) and machine learning (ML) applications. It enables algorithms to exploit the power of news by seizing opportunities and managing risk.
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
Archives
– Five quarters of data available through API
– Archives available
– Back to 1996 for Reuters News
– Back to 2003 for many other news sources
Metadata
– Topic codes: Over 6,000 total news codes, and over 3,000 news topc codes
– LSEG PermID: open organisational identifier
– Timestamps: normalised across all news sources, in UTC – relevance, confidence
– Sentiment
– Significance
– Most read
– Deduplication
Delivery frequency
Real time (through AWS MessageQueue)
On-demand
Format
– Feed: JSON
Delivery
– Streaming: AWS Message Queue
– Request-Response API
