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Your AI Assistant Doesn't Know Today's Market News. Here's the Fix.
LLMs have a knowledge cutoff and hallucinate on markets. Give Claude or ChatGPT live, sourced financial news over MCP — filtered by ticker, sentiment, and date.
REST vs WebSocket vs Webhooks vs MCP: Which to Use
finlight delivers the same enriched news four ways. Compare REST, WebSocket, webhooks, and MCP, and learn which delivery method fits your job.
We Ran Our Search Engine Backwards
The same query returned different results over REST and WebSocket. How we replaced an eval-based matcher with the OpenSearch percolator and ran our search engine backwards.
Request Any Source: finlight Custom Feeds
Need a source finlight does not cover yet? Name it. We build, maintain, normalize, and entity-tag it, then stream it through the API you already use.
Arabic Financial Media: Argaam, Al Eqtisadiah and Asharq, in the Same API
Query Argaam, Al Eqtisadiah, Al Arabiya, Asharq Business, Mubasher, Zawya and more Arabic media through one API, alongside Bloomberg, Reuters and the FT. Free API key, no credit card.