Thomson Reuters | News Archive

Financial

Use past news events to enhance your program trading strategies. News Archive is a comprehensive, machine-readable archive of Reuters news that presents events exactly as they broke to the markets. Each release of information is timestamped to the millisecond and tagged with an array of metadata fields for easy machine consumption.

With Reuters News content dating back to 1987, and comprehensive news from over 40 third-parties dating back to 2003, the News Archive is designed for building and back-testing algorithms and researching how news has moved markets. The archive includes every alert, story, update, correction and deletion from 2003 – each with a rich array of metadata noting the stage of the story, company identifiers, topic codes, headline tags, and other valuable information. Sources include Reuters News as well as select third-party sources such as PR Newswire, Business Wire and the Regulatory News Service (LSE).

When used alongside Thomson Reuters Tick History, the News Archive enables users to search for hidden correlations between reported events and past trading behavior. With a common symbology and synchronized time-stamp, it can be seamlessly integrated into a client’s databases so users can track how a story evolved and understand the impact of each piece of the story on the market.

With News Archive, you can:

Develop news-based programmatic trading strategies – Replay market moves and analyze trends to enhance your trading strategies.
Follow story development millisecond by millisecond – See every stage in a story’s development. Replay market behavior, from the initial alert through to the full story and subsequent updates, clarifications and corrections.
Replay market behavior with confidence – The timestamps use the same clock used by market data in our historical pricing archive and real-time market data feeds.

Why choose News Archive?

Indispensable, world-leading, global news coverage: Reuters is the world’s largest international news agency, with over 2,800 journalists in almost 200 bureaux around the world. We gather and edit news in 21 languages, 24 hours a day, 365 days a year, applying our principles of independence, integrity and freedom from bias every step of the way.
Rich array of metadata fields: Filter News Archive by company, story type and industry so you can understand the overall impact of news events across the securities and sectors you cover.
Convenient file format: Content from News Archive is supplied in CSV data files in compressed format for easy download.
Choice of delivery options: Choose between content from the previous year or access our entire database. When you subscribe, you receive all the data on DVD; after that, you can download data in the archive any time you want, using a secure web-based interface that’s accessible from anywhere with an internet connection.