News (market data)

Mixed news window

Infront Professional Terminal includes a "News" window where you can select and display news from several sources and filter the news in different ways. The news sources available vary from country to country. For more information about sources, please contact your vendor. Each news source is continuously updated and can be presented in text, HTML or other standard formats.

To open the main "News" window, select the main menu > "Tools" > "News". This opens a list of countries with available sources. To select from the list of sources, click the "+" icon to open the list. Click the sources you want displayed, then click "OK". If you want to select all sources, click the country node.

News in HTML format can be displayed in a browser within the program or in an external browser (such as Google Chrome).

The top panel in the "News" window displays a drop-down list with selected sources. To select one source only, select the corresponding source in the list. To edit the list, click the "Edit News Services" button or right-click in the "News" window and select "Edit News Services". Click the sources you want displayed/removed and click "OK".

The top panel in the news window displays a drop-down list with chosen sources. To select one source only, mark the source in the list. To edit the list, click the "Edit News Services" button or right-click in the "News" window and select "Edit News Services". Click the sources you want displayed/removed and click "OK".

Company specific News window

The company specific "News" window includes only news for a specific company.

A company specific news window can be opened in three different ways.

• Search for "news" in the "Find anything" search field > press <ENTER> and type in the ticker or name of the symbol you would like to see.
  

  

• Right-click a symbol > "News & Research" > "News".
• Select a symbol and press <CTRL>+<SHIFT>+<W>.

Filter News

Filter news by typing directly in the search field. For example, you can search for "North America" and see the filter criteria on the right hand side is "Geographical Area". If you also add "oil" in the search field, you can see that this can be filtered as a "classification".

You can also filter news stories by clicking the funnel icon and select "edit filter". Set conditions to filter the stories so that only stories that satisfy the conditions you have set are included in the list.

Click the "Advanced" button to see more options. The following four options can be controlled by using checkboxes:

Finally, you can filter by news source as well as specific Category, Industry, Country and Topic codes. Most of the time, it is easier just to use the Classifications and Geographical areas filters above.

Filter expression strings

The text input lines in the filter and alerts dialogs accept filter expression strings. The supported rules are:

• Type a word to match that word.
• Two words separated with a space work as an AND filter (both words must occur).
• Two words separated with a plus sign ("+") or a pipe sign ("|") work as an OR filter (either word must occur).
• A word prefixed with a minus sign ("-") work as a NOT filter (the word must not occur).

Examples filter explanation:

"OIL"
Field must contain "OIL"

"OIL" "GAS"
Field must contains "OIL" AND "GAS"

"OIL "+" GAS"
Field must contain "OIL" OR "GAS"

"-OIL" "-GAS"
Field must NOT contain neither "OIL" nor "GAS"

Historical news

The "News" window lets you view news items from yesterday or any other day in the past. In addition to the news source drop-down menu, there is a date drop down where you select what date it should show news for. The default "Today" shows all today's news and update with new news items in real time.

The other options let you see yesterday's news or any other date in the last week. You can select a specific date in the past with the "Select date" option. Note that historical news is not available from all news services.

In the "News list" window, there are new available columns for Category, Country, Industry, Language and Topic. These columns are used in news feeds such as AFX and Dow Jones.

In addition, there is a new FeedSymbols column that shows the explicit feed and symbol reference of each news item. It is mostly useful when tracking down issues with the news to symbol links.

A headline in the news list that is longer than the width of the column now has an ellipsis (...) at the end of the line. If you hover the mouse over the text, a hint pops up with the complete headline.

When you read an integrated (not web-based) news article, the date and time of the news item will now be included with the name of the news vendor at the top of the "News story" window.

For some news feeds (such as Dow Jones and AFX), a (red) flash news item might have a body, and a normal (black) news item might only have a headline.

Flash News

Flash news are colored red in the "Composite" window, the "Symbol" window and in the "My List" page of the "Market" window.

Select background color

Right-click a column to select a unique background color for each news source.

Edit columns

To edit columns displayed, right-click one of the existing columns and select "Select Columns".

Available news columns