Quantifying the News

Moody’s Analytics NewsEdge™ suite of solutions now includes NewsEdge + Data. This service transforms qualitative text-based content into vital quantitative data that can be easily applied to your analytics, models and data visualizations. With over three decades of news processing experience, our NewsEdge team understands the nuances of news content and the importance of accurate tagging to news data you can trust.

Transforming Text into Data for Enhanced Analytics

NewsEdge+ Data delivers volume statistics derived from NewsEdge’s global collection of business relevant news and information. With over 24,000 content sources and 5 years of archived history, this data presents companies, people, locations, industries and subjects through story volume as a time series data set ready for use in your advanced analytics.

Use NewsEdge+ Data to identify trends, highlight opportunities, and uncover potential risk for a variety of use cases.

Risk Monitoring and Analysis – monitor and compare news trends to identify similar scenarios and plan for likely outcomes

Portfolio Management – leverage company and event data to highlight news events impacting your portfolio

Quantitative Analysis – mine the data to understand patterns and correlations between metadata to more accurately forecast and inform decision-making

Benefits of NewsEdge+ Data

NewsEdge+ Data is an unique data set that helps users to better understand the impact of news events. Key benefits include:

Time Savings 

This data set saves valuable resource time by delivering actionable data without the need to read and analyze thousands of news stories.

Sentiment

Article-level sentiment helps to provide context to large amounts of data and isolate areas of interest through positive, negative, and neutral sentiment counts.

Data Reliability

Our data is derived from trusted brands that make up the NewsEdge Content Collection using metadata that has been developed and maintained for over three decades.

Interoperability

The data includes identifiers to help you map to other Moody’s data and workflows via Orbis ID or to quickly retrieve the underlying news stories with the NewsEdge story ID pursuant to your subscription.

Easy Accessibility

NewsEdge+ Data is accessible as a RESTful API via the Moody’s Analytics API Hub or through the Moody’s DataHub cloud-based delivery platform.

With our large corpus of metadata enriched content, you can easily identify changing volumes of news activity signaling something impactful is happening. Infuse your data analytics with key insights mined from the news to analyze trends, spot potential risk, or discover opportunities for your business.