Any suggestions for a news service that IB offers, either for free, or monthly charge? I am looking for mostly timely macro economic news, as I mostly trade futures, EFTs, rarely individual stocks, although sometimes major corp events / earnings will impact the entire market. "Timely" refers to U.S. & foreign reports, press conferences, etc. CNBC is always 1 - 3 minutes behind, & poor coverage as well. Dow Jones ? Bloomberg? For many years I used the audio service from Trade The News (TNN) but hard to justify the current I think $350 monthly fee (pretty much 24/5 days) for that, especially since I do not use all the individual stock info.
You can get Reuters News feed for $110 monthly on Reuters Xenith package, see Metastock https://www.metastock.com/products/realtime/xenith/?features
1) I'm looking for ratings news (credit ratings, price target change and upgrades/downgrades), does reuters news feed cover this type of news? 2) Are their news only from reuters sources or they include news from other sources (like MTnewswire, globenewswire,PR, benzinga, dowjones, CFRA...etc) ?
I've tried about 6 different FREE news services via IB. "Hot News," "Economic News," "Company News" Reuters Headlines Dow Jones Basically, the above coverage is good. HOWEVER, in the approx 5 days I've used above, the various pages are NOT working, more than 50% of the time. Incredible that IB is unable to maintain these services. I will go with a separate, probably browser, rather than audio real-time news service.
Not updating at all. When updating, they are fast, & I would be satisfied to use for macro trading -- i.e., I mostly trade SP futures & options, rarely individual stocks. But based on a week, it is not dependable.