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
LSEG provide News to our Workspace desktop offering. This covers almost 10,000+ news sources in-product and available via API. This service is designed for individual users only and does not permit any redistribution or server side usage.
Content
Textual News with headline, story body text, and metadata sourced from:
– Reuters News
– Third-party sources including press releases and regulatory wires
– News Alerts
Languages
– Reuters: 15 languages
Main use cases
– Human - Machine Workflows
Archives
– Five quarters of data available through API
Metadata
– Topic codes: over 4,000 codes tagged to asset class, geography, events, industry, sector, etc.
– LSEG PermID: open organisational identifier
– Timestamps: normalised across all news sources, in UTC
– Relevance, confidence
– Sentiment
– Significance
– Most read
– Deduplication
Delivery frequency
– Real time and archive and curated news experiences
Format
– API: JSON and Streaming Websocket
Delivery
– API via Streaming Websocket and JSON
