Adverse news monitoring for a stock portfolio
Compliance review starts with a question: did anything publish on a name we hold? MarketNewsAPI answers that with ticker filters, and keeps legal notices in their own type.
How does a stock news API help risk, compliance, and operations teams?
Query MarketNewsAPI for a list of tickers, and request legal notices separately, so a reviewer sees coverage and shareholder alerts without reading the whole market.
When this stock news workflow fits
- You monitor a book of holdings, not a single trader's watchlist.
- Legal notices must be visible and must not be confused with earnings releases.
- You need a timestamp and a source for the audit trail.
The call
Legal notices on NVDA
The same article shape on every guide: ticker, type, timestamps, summary, and a link. Press releases include the full text.
curl "https://api.marketnewsapi.com/v1/news?tickers=NVDA&type=legal&limit=20" \
-H "Authorization: Bearer $MARKETNEWSAPI_KEY"How do you request stock news for this workflow?
Sweep the book
tickers=NVDA,MSFT&from=2026-10-06 returns items since midnight UTC. Each article includes the headline, source, and link.
Surface legal items
A second query with type=legal lists shareholder class-action and investor-alert notices. They are stored apart from stock news and press releases.
Keep the evidence
Store id, published_at, source, and url with the review. The id is stable for that canonical URL.
Frequently asked questions
Can several people share one MarketNewsAPI account?
What if we need more than three WebSocket connections?
Can I separate legal notices from ordinary headlines?
Other stock news API workflows
Long-term investors
Pull the filing-week headlines and guidance releases for a company you intend to hold.
Read the guideQuant desks
Turn headlines into features: event type and the minute the story was stored.
Read the guideDashboards
Show the latest headline beside a chart, with the source, time, and summary already on the payload.
Read the guideReal-time stock news for $15 a month.
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