Social media
Infront Launches Tweetwires Twitter Data Filtering Service
Norwegian market data and trading technology vendor Infront will today announce a new service, dubbed Infront Tweetwires, which filters Twitter for real-time news and sentiment related to specific industry sectors and news events, to help users extract…
Eagle Alpha Switches on Sonar to Swoop on ‘Social' Financial Data
Startup social media data provider Eagle Alpha has unveiled Social Sonar, a service that compiles lists of key sources and influencers on Twitter to give sell-side, buy-side and individual investors read-only access to market-moving information on stocks…
Lessons from the Hash Crash
Over the past few months, a series of glitches similar to the one that caused the Hash Crash has made it clear that the financial markets are at the mercy of high-frequency trading machines. Some of these systems feed mostly on social media content,…
Post ‘Hash Crash,’ Social Media Traders Experience Trust Issues
The financial markets are abuzz with the potential of social media as an input to trading decisions. But in the wake of the impact of recent Twitter hacks on the markets, should traders be more careful about the weight they assign “social” data sources?
UK Firms Cite Storage, Processing of Social Media Data as Barrier to Sentiment Trading
Firms wanting to make use of social media data face significant technology challenges, survey says
DCM Preps Social Sentiment Datafeed
The relaunched former Derwent Capital Markets Twitter fund plans to release an API for banks, hedge funds and brokers to leverage its social media sentiment data
IPC Survey: Firms to Raise Data Spend, Target Social Media Data in 2013
Integration, new data sources top firms' data spend priorities for next year, according to a survey by IPC.
Infront Terminal ‘Friends’ Social Data
New version of Infront's terminal incorporates social media tools to allow traders and investors to monitor market-moving information from new sources
Capco: European Firms Yet To Embrace Unstructured Data
Survey of European financial firms identifies a lack of uptake of content such as social media by trading operations
