Ticker News

Overview

Ticker News resolves the ticker to its exact listing first, then gathers stories from financial news feeds that are already organised by ticker, so results are tied to the company rather than guessed from keywords. The same story carried by several outlets is returned once. Each story is checked for whether its headline or summary names the company or ticker: stories that do are tagged direct and returned by default, while sector round-ups and peer stories the feeds also carry are available with relevance=all. News is refreshed hourly for tickers in use and kept for 90 days.

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Formula

One function covers the whole catalog: the first argument names the source, the rest are its inputs, and the "field" pair says which single value lands in the cell. Formulas covers the grammar that applies to all of them.

=VERVE("tickernews", A2, "field", "name")

A2 holds the ticker you are looking up. Drag the formula down and each row resolves on its own.

With literal values

Nothing has to come from a cell — typed values work the same way.

=VERVE("tickernews", "AAPL", "field", "name")

Inputs

Required inputs are positional, in the order below. Everything else is passed as a "name", value pair after them — the same shape as SUMIFS. Premium inputs are accepted on every plan but only take effect on plans that include them.

Input	Type	Where it goes	Description
`ticker`Required	string	argument 2 (A2)	The ticker symbol to get news for, for example AAPL, BRK.B, 7203 or SHEL. A suffix such as BP.L, a coin pair such as BTC-USD, a contract such as CL=F or a currency pair such as EUR/USD picks that market. length 0–24
`market`Optional	string	"market", value	The market of the listing, when the ticker trades in more than one: a two-letter market code, CRYPTO, FUTURES or FX. Defaults to the US listing. `USGBDEFRNLITESCH`+14
`relevance`Optional	string	"relevance", value	direct returns only stories whose headline or summary names the company or ticker; all also returns the sector round-ups and peer stories the news feeds carry for the ticker. `directall` default direct
`since`OptionalPremium	string	"since", value	Return only stories published at or after this date or date-time (ISO 8601), for example 2026-10-01 or 2026-10-01T14:00:00Z. length 0–30 · date

Passing an option

=VERVE("tickernews", A2, "market", "US")

What lands in your sheet

The "field" pair is what makes the formula resolve to one cell. Its value is a dot-path from the table below, so swapping it is how you pull a different value — one formula per column.

Seeing everything at once

Drop the "field" pair and the formula returns the whole response instead: two columns, field name on the left and value on the right, spilling from the cell you typed in.

=VERVE("tickernews", A2)

Good for exploring, not for filling down

The second row's table would land on top of the first's, and every cell after the first reads #REF! (#SPILL! in Excel). Keep one per sheet, or name a field, and leave the cells below and to the right empty.

Response fields

Paths are relative to data. Each one is exactly what the "field" pair accepts, so swapping it is how you pull a different value into a cell. On a plan without a Premium field the cell reads #PREMIUM(field) rather than a value, so a locked field never looks like a real answer.

Use as "field"	Type	Example cell value	Description
`ticker`	string	`AAPL`	Ticker symbol of the listing the news is for
`name`	string	`Apple Inc. Common Stock`	Name of the company, fund, coin or contract
`market`	string	`US`	Market of the listing: a two-letter country code, CRYPTO, FUTURES or FX
`exchange`	string	`XNAS`	ISO 10383 MIC code of the listing exchange; CRYPTO for coins, FX for currency pairs
`assetClass`	string	`equity`	Asset class of the listing: equity, fund, crypto, currency, commodity, future, debt or other
`relevance`	string	`direct`	The relevance filter that was applied: direct or all
`lastUpdated`	string	`2026-10-06T19:18:01.000Z`	When the ticker's news was last refreshed (ISO 8601)
`count`	number	`3`	Number of stories returned
`articles`	array[3]		News stories, newest first
`articles.0.title`	string	`Scott Galloway: “Apple Wins by Showing Up Late” in AI, and Its New Home Hub Is the Test`	Headline of the story
`articles.0.link`	string	`https://www.tikr.com/blog/scott-galloway-apple-wins-by-showing-up-late-in-ai-and-its-new-home-hub-is-the-test?ref=yahoofinance`	URL of the story
`articles.0.source`	string	`Yahoo Finance`	News feed the story was found in
`articles.0.publisher`	string	`tikr.com`	Domain of the site that published the story
`articles.0.publishedAt`	string	`2026-10-06T18:44:16.000Z`	When the story was published (ISO 8601)
`articles.0.relevance`	string	`direct`	direct when the headline or summary names the company or ticker, otherwise related
`articles.0.snippet`Premium	string	`Key TakeawaysApple is expected to launch its first smart home hub on Oct. 13, and Scott Galloway predicts it will be the top smart display by revenue within 18 months.`	Opening summary of the story, up to 300 characters; null when the feed carries none
`articles.0.sentiment`Premium	string	`very positive`	Tone of the headline and summary: very positive, positive, neutral, negative or very negative
`articles.0.sentimentScore`Premium	number	`8`	Tone score of the headline and summary; above zero is positive, below zero negative

Filling a whole column

Both platforms make one batched call for a column rather than one request per cell, and both cost the same — 2 credits per row looked up. How you write it differs, because the two runtimes batch at different points.

Rows 2–100 in one call

=VERVE("tickernews", A2:A100, "field", "name")

In Google Sheets, give the arguments ranges and the answers spill down from the cell you typed in. Custom functions there run synchronously and in isolation, so dragged cells cannot be coalesced — the range form is how a column becomes one call. The "field" pair is required here: a per-row two-column table has nowhere to spill. Use a full column per input (A2:A100, not A2) — a single-cell reference is read as row 1 only and the rest of the column comes back blank.

In Excel, type the formula once and fill down — no range form and none needed, because its runtime is asynchronous and the add-in coalesces the calls a fill produces into a single batched request. Do not hand VERVE.CALL a range: Excel flattens it into positional arguments, so A2:A100 arrives as a hundred separate arguments and the cell reads #ERR rather than filling.

Either way, column A holds your ticker values and the answers land beside them, one row each, blank rows skipped.

When a cell doesn't fill

A failed lookup returns readable text starting with #ERR rather than a spreadsheet error, because Excel cannot show a custom message on a real error — you would get a bare #VALUE! with no reason. The trade-off is that IFERROR() will not catch it; test with LEFT(cell, 4) = "#ERR" instead. Error handling covers the rest.

Cell reads	What happened
`#ERR Not connected`	No API key saved. Open the side panel and connect your account.
`#ERR Replace <name> with a cell or value`	A preview formula was copied as-is. Swap the placeholder for a cell reference.
`#ERR No "x" in tickernews`	An option name this source does not take. The message lists the ones it does.
`#ERR No data point "…"`	The `"field"` path is not in the response. Check it against the table above.
`#PREMIUM(field)`	The field exists but your plan does not include it.
`#ERR Out of credits`	The cycle's credits are spent. Usage resets on your billing date.

Before the formula works

The add-in reads the API key you saved once in the side panel — the key never goes in the formula, so a shared sheet does not leak it and a collaborator without access simply sees the last calculated values.

Install the add-in for Google Sheets or Excel.
Open the side panel and sign in, or paste a key from your dashboard.
Type the formula above into any cell.

Use cases

Portfolio News Feeds: Trading and portfolio apps show the latest stories for every holding on a watchlist or position screen.
Event Monitoring: Research tools and alerting services watch a list of tickers for new stories and flag the ones that mention the company.
Stock Pages: Finance sites and dashboards add a news panel to each ticker page without running their own news crawler.
Research Context: Analysts and AI assistants pull the recent headlines behind a price move before writing a note or answering a question.

Other ways to use Ticker News

Set up Ticker News on VerveSheets, or reach the same source a different way. Your VerveSheets account and credits work on all of them — one key, one balance.

Call it as a REST APIOne HTTPS endpoint and an x-api-key header, with SDKs for Node, Python and .NET.APIVerve →Reference →

Give it to an AI agentConnect over MCP and your agent calls it as a native tool — Claude, Cursor, ChatGPT.VerveKit →Reference →

Ground an agent on itA cited, machine-checkable fact your model can't produce on its own.VerveContext →Reference →