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Thomson Reuters Significant Developments

Thomson Reuters Significant Developments is a unique news analysis and filtering service providing a concise description of crucial, market-moving company news on a near real-time basis. We help clients navigate through a superfluous volume of news, keep abreast of specific subject matters, monitor companies and apply historical data for trend analysis and back-testing. Customized reports can easily be created for a portfolio of companies, regions, industries and news topics. Intelligent tagging of developments and a deep history of available news means that Significant Developments can now be integrated into your quantitative models.

With Thomson Reuters Significant Developments, you can:

  • Stay informed with clear, unbiased and essential facts in near real time
  • Avoid the noise, spin and other unnecessary news to keep abreast of the latest events
  • Instantly catch up on recent news affecting your portfolios in the same amount of time required to read one press release
  • Keep abreast of competitors, peer and supplier activity, while also researching new industries and markets
  • Gauge forward looking sentiment to forecast valuations and make investment decisions
  • Leverage deep historical data to measure the impact an event had on stock performance and guide for future strategies
  • Use as an event trigger and to identify new business opportunities

Why choose Thomson Reuters Significant Developments?

  • Coverage is global and comprehensive, with 51,000 publicly listed companies spanning over 100 markets tracked, representing a truly single source of news globally
  • Access deep and broad history, with access to over 1.5 million developments compiled since creation in 2000, with an average of 5,000 summaries added each week
  • Intelligent tagging and consistency provides the ability to establish queries by company, date, topics, industry, sector, significance, and a combination of each
  • Our content is impartial and focuses on facts
  • We have been collecting significant developments for 10 years, and have leveraged this experience to create robust workflows and produce consistent results
  • With data collection sites across the globe, we have the local expertise to capture and translate superior data consistently.

Global coverage

  • Over 51,000 active companies, representing over 95% of world market cap
  • Coverage of all constituents of all major indices
  • 150+ exchanges in 100 countries


Unique content

  • Filtered information from hundreds of news sources available in a searchable database
  • Stories tagged by topic, importance and industry
  • History available (January 2000 for the US, 2002 for UKI and Canada and 2005 for all other non-US markets) 


Outstanding quality

  • Data collection team with more than 10 years of experience collecting Significant Developments
  • Rigorous training program for all data analysts and editors
  • Numerous manual and automated error checks

Exceptional timeliness

  • All data is collected as soon as it enters the market on a 24x6 basis
  • Data collection centers in the Americas, Europe and Asia

Thomson Reuters Significant Developments is available via:

  • Thomson Reuters Proprietary Desktop Applications (Thomson ONE, Reuters Knowledge, 3000 Xtra, Station, etc.)
  • FTP and API data file delivery
  • Our premium channel partners