Dow Jones Formalizes Partnerships for News Analytics Portfolio

Dow Jones will this week announce a suite of sentiment analysis tools from the news provider and third-party vendors signed up over recent months, collectively dubbed News Analytics, that trading firms can use to develop strategies based on news and sentiment analysis.

News Analytics includes Dow Jones’ own Lexicon, an XML feed tagged with metadata that analyzes the tone of news items based on patterns of words used within each story, and Spanish sentiment analysis provider RavenPack—which Dow