HOBOKEN, N.J., Feb. 28, 2017 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- NewsWare, a division of Brown Box Financial Services, Inc., today released NewsWatch 15.8, the latest version of its flagship news aggregation and filtering product. NewsWatch 15.8 offers enhancements to its news-alert tool that provides functionality not found elsewhere, giving institutional traders, fund managers and registered investment Advisors the breaking financial news that they want most, first.
In 15.8, NewsWare focuses on display functions, according to President Bill Olsen. For example, in response to client requests for time-specific, color-coded alerts, incoming news stories can now be displayed with a different background color than previously released stories and traders and investors can select their time preference in terms of minutes.
With this release, Olsen said, “NewsWare extends its leadership position in the news-filtering industry with enhancements to NewsWatch that enable traders and investors to customize the delivery of headlines specifically of interest to them.”
New features include:
- Time-sensitive background color changes: Alerts can now be displayed with two colors to clearly identify the most recent news headlines within an alert.
- Spacing: NewsWatch 15.8 adds a 1.5 and 2.0 spacing option to its previous single-spaced format.
- Composite display: Traders and investors can consolidate all their active alerts into a single window. Each headline is tagged with the name of the alert in the first layout field.
- Saving Layouts: NewsWatch offers a number of different fields, including Vendor Code, Hot News indicator, Stock Ticker, Time, Date, Exchanges, and Headline. While traders and investors have had the ability to make these fields larger or smaller, in 15.8 these display adjustments will now be saved.
“Client input and feedback are critical contributors to NewsWatch’s constant upgrade process. This latest release continues our tradition of listening to our clients to make NewsWatch the easiest to use and fastest system for getting customized news,” Olsen added.
NewsWatch is a fully customizable, real-time streaming news system that is available through the Internet or dedicated lines. Its search engine filters news by ticker symbol, keyword, topic, industry, and news source. Pop-through banner alerts notify users of breaking news according to the user's customized filter. NewsWatch offers hundreds of national and international news sources, including general newswires, financial newswires (such as Dow Jones), press release wires, SEC filings, and access to analyst reports - all via one connection.
NewsWatch is used by hedge funds/traders tracking breaking news announcements about companies in their portfolio; Arbitrage desks identifying event-driven opportunities; financial advisors following pertinent news about customized groups of stocks for each client; analysts monitoring industry groups; compliance departments conducting market surveillance; corporations researching competitors, tracking their own IR events, or keeping abreast of events affecting the supply chain; self-directed users looking to efficiently leverage the financial news that is specifically relevant to them.
NewsWare offers a variety of customizable PC-based news applications. In addition to NewsWatch, NewsWare offers an API that can be used to integrate a consolidated feed into market-data systems, trading systems, corporate intranets, and websites.
For a free trial to experience the power of breaking news, first, visit http:/www.newsware.com or for more information about NewsWatch 15.8, call 212-612-2262.
About Brown Box Financial Services: Based in Chino Hills, CA, Brown Box Financial Services, Inc., is a financial-services firm providing solutions for institutional traders, fund managers, and registered investment Advisors. Its NewsWare division offers these major services: NewsWatch, a customizable market intelligence tool that provide alerts on events affecting the financial markets; NewsWare.com, an online version of NewsWatch accessible over a web browser or mobile device; and NewsWare API, which delivers news from hundreds of sources in one format.