News Overview

The News tool streams real-time breaking news right to your platform. Scan the headlines, read the full story, and set up personal news watches integrated with alerts.

To open, click in the Toolbar.

The News window delivers the latest Thomson Reuters* and Acquire Media news directly to your desktop. You may open up to 3 News windows at a time. Using the news window, you can:

Get breaking market news as it comes out throughout the day,
Query for news by keyword or symbol, or
Set watch lists to see only news on specific symbols.

Stock symbols and price and volume data shown here and in the software are for illustrative purposes only. Charles Schwab & Co., Inc., its parent or affiliates, and/or its employees and/or directors may have positions in securities referenced herein, and may, as principal or agent, buy from or sell to clients.

FILE
Page Setup	Enables you to customize the current page for printing. Read the Printing Windows topic for more information.
Print	Click to send the news to your printer for a hard copy. For a shortcut, right-click in the Preview window and click Print Story.
Close	Click to close the News window.

VIEW
Preview	Open or close the Preview panel by clicking View > Preview or right-clicking at the bottom of the News window and selecting Show Preview Window. To read an article when the Preview panel is closed, right-click on the headline and choose either Open Story (to display the news story in a pop-up window) or Show Preview Window (to re-open the Preview panel for viewing).

VIEW

Preview

Open or close the Preview panel by clicking View > Preview or right-clicking at the bottom of the News window and selecting Show Preview Window.

To read an article when the Preview panel is closed, right-click on the headline and choose either Open Story (to display the news story in a pop-up window) or Show Preview Window (to re-open the Preview panel for viewing).

SETTINGS
Keyword Filter	Filters allow you to limit the volume and type of news that appears in your Breaking News tab by only displaying stories that have the key words or phrases you specify here. To start, click Settings > Keyword Filter while viewing the Breaking News Tab. check Enable Breaking News Filtering. Select whether you want the keyword to appear in the headline, story text, or either. Type the keyword or phrase and click Add to add it to the list. To remove any of the words, click on the word and click Remove. Click OK when you are finished setting up your filters.
News Alerts	If you wish to be alerted when new news arrives in either of the three news tabs, click on the tab with the stories for which you would like receive news alerts, go to Settings > News Alerts and choose whether to play a sound file and/or switch the News window to display the tab.
News Providers	Choose which sources you want to see news from in the News window. Add or remove providers from the Selected Providers list.
Fonts	Click to change the font style in the News window.
Colors	Click to change the colors in your News window.

Right-Click Shortcuts for News

Several of the menu selections above are also available by right-clicking in the News window. If a security symbol is in the headline of an article you right-click on, you will also see options to set an alert, load into Trading Window, access Research and more.

* Professional clients do not have access to Thomson Reuters news.