Financial News Aggregation and Market Commentary Platform

This project is a news aggregation and research platform designed for financial analysts, traders, and content teams who need to monitor fast-moving markets and produce timely, high-quality market commentary.

The system streamlines how financial news is collected, reviewed, and summarised by bringing multiple trusted sources, economic data, and editorial tools into a single interface.

Context and Problem

Financial news updates continuously throughout the day. Analysts and editorial teams typically face:

• High volumes of new articles across multiple publications
• Repeated checking of the same sources
• Difficulty tracking what has already been read
• Separate tools for news, economic calendars, and report drafting
• Time lost scanning content that is not relevant or already covered
• These issues slow down the production of internal market notes and client updates, especially in volatile markets.

The Solution

We designed and built a platform that automates news monitoring and simplifies the workflow from content discovery to market summary creation.

The system continuously aggregates financial news, highlights what is new for each user, and provides tools to curate and reuse content efficiently.

Core capabilities include:

• Automated aggregation of financial news from selected sources
• User-level tracking of read and unread articles
• Integrated economic calendar and macro data
• In-browser tools for creating daily market summaries

Key Features

News aggregation and archiving

Articles are automatically collected from selected financial publications

• Users can differentiate articles that are new since their last  visit
  • Full historical archives are maintained and searchable by source, topic, or keyword
• Articles can be flagged for follow-up or inclusion in summaries

Efficient presentation

All content from a given publication is consolidated into a single view, preventing multiple clicks

• Hover-over previews allow rapid review without opening multiple tabs
• Filters by source or category support focused research
• This design enables fast scanning and prioritisation with minimal disruption.

Market summary creation

• Users can mark selected articles as “important”
• Chosen items are compiled into an editable daily summary
• Summaries can be exported for use in internal notes or client communications
• Personal watchlists and annotations support ongoing analysis

Economic calendar integration

• Automatic import of key economic events and releases
• Display of forecasts, outcomes, and release timing
• Direct links between macro events and relevant news coverage
• This allows analysts to contextualise market moves and identify coherent narratives.

Industry knowledge base

• Curated storage of longer-form research and industry articles
• Internal notes and summaries attached to each item
• Creation of a growing institutional knowledge repository over time

Additional Capabilities

Individual reading histories per user

• Saved favourites with notes and annotations
• Optional alerts for significant market moves since prior closes
• Searchable historical archive across all content

Copyright and Compliance

• The platform respects publisher rights and subscription paywalls.
• Only publicly available headlines and metadata are displayed for paywalled sources
• Users authenticate with their own subscriptions where required
• Access remains compliant with publisher licensing and usage rules

Outcome and Value

For analysts and content teams:

• Significant reduction in time spent reviewing daily news
• Clear visibility of new and unread content
• Faster production of consistent, high-quality market summaries

For institutions:

• Improved internal communication and shared market awareness
• A persistent archive of important developments
• Reduced reliance on manual monitoring and fragmented workflows

Summary

This project replaces manual news monitoring with a structured, automated research workflow.

By combining real-time aggregation, user-specific tracking, economic data, and summary generation in one system, it allows professionals to focus on analysis and insight rather than information gathering — reducing a multi-hour daily task to a focused, repeatable process.