Dow Jones Newswires - financial news for text mining
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By Chris Porter

Abstract

In addition to its Factiva service, Dow Jones provides real-time and archive feeds of its proprietary Dow Jones Newswires financial news offering, specifically for text mining purposes.

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Jinfo users who are investigating data mining projects may be well aware of the Factiva service from Dow Jones; but Dow Jones also has another set of services that may be of interest to them.

Machine-readable text feed 

Dow Jones Newswires is a global real-time news offering, serving financial professionals on third-party desktop terminals, on specialised financial websites and portals and in the company's own proprietary applications; and the Newswires content is also made available as a machine-readable text feed and archive, tailored to meet the needs of those undertaking analytics projects.

Options include ultra-low-latency delivery formats and feeds, for very high-speed algorithmic trading; and structured content archives, for historical analysis and back-testing.

Spotting unusual patterns 

Users of these Newswires feeds and archives include buy-side firms such as mutual funds, pension funds and insurance companies, who may be using them to help with asset allocation and investment strategies; and sell-side firms, who use them to help with market surveillance, looking for predictable or unusual spikes and patterns.

Financial regulators are also clients, and will typically be looking at how a financial news story relates to price movements - or alternatively they may be probing into situations where there is no relevant published news story, but still a big price movement to account for.

30 year archive 

The Dow Jones Newswires archive goes back over 30 years (though not all customers want the full archive); Dow Jones tells Jinfo that its attractions to users include the very structured, consistent writing style; the taxonomy and other metadata; and the precise timestamps, allowing easy correlation with "tick" data of market price movements.

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