ICB Sector News Intelligence for Analysts, Investors, and Financial Teams
Track ICB sector news in real time across global sources in 50+ languages with boolean search, targeted filters for ICB sectors, countries, and languages, and output shapes that fit the job: headlines, summaries, or full stories. Built for analysts, investors, portfolio teams, and market-data users, with API, MCP, web apps, Slack, Microsoft Teams, WhatsApp, and direct integrations for sector analysis, peer tracking, investment research, and financial monitoring.
ICB sector news search for portfolio intelligence and market-data products
ICB is used in market-data, exchange, index, and portfolio analytics workflows. This service helps teams retrieve news using the Industry Classification Benchmark so they can follow companies and themes within a consistent investment taxonomy.
Why ICB-based monitoring matters
When users organize coverage, screens, or analytics by ICB, they need retrieval that understands the same classification. That is especially useful for portfolio tools, market-data products, research platforms, and AI systems that compare companies within benchmark structures.
What Problem Does It Solve?
Broad sector keywords create noise and make cross-market comparisons harder. ICB gives teams another widely used investment classification system for building cleaner sector news workflows.
Who Is It For?
Portfolio analytics and market-data teams using ICB to organize companies and screens.
Developers building investor dashboards, exchange tools, and watchlist products.
Analysts writing classification-aware company and sector commentary.
AI teams that need sector-benchmark context for automated insight generation.
Key Benefits
Retrieve news by ICB classification rather than broad sector keywords.
Support portfolio monitoring, classification-aware watchlists, and research dashboards.
Combine ICB retrieval with boolean search to target earnings, regulation, M&A, technology, or macro themes.
Use headlines, briefs, and full text according to the depth required.
Access the service through API, MCP, and the web app.
Use Cases
Portfolio tools that deliver automatic news updates by ICB category.
Research workflows comparing peer groups inside a benchmark structure.
Exchange and market-data products surfacing classification-aware narratives.
AI agents preparing company or sector notes using benchmark-linked news.
How It Works
Select the ICB code relevant to the benchmark group you want to monitor.
Retrieve headlines, briefs, or full text and add boolean terms when extra focus is needed.
Filter by geography or language and push the output into apps, analyst tools, or AI systems.
AI and MCP Workflows
Use MCP so AI agents can pull ICB-linked news before writing watchlist notes or peer-group analysis.
Blend ICB retrieval with portfolio holdings, exchange data, or entity IDs for deeper workflows.
Automate benchmark-aware commentary for research and portfolio products.
Frequently Asked Questions
Why use ICB instead of generic sector labels? Because it gives a more consistent benchmark-driven structure for investment workflows.
Can I use this inside portfolio apps? Yes. That is a natural fit.
Can AI agents compare peer-group narratives with it? Yes. MCP makes that straightforward.
Getting Started
Start with the ICB groups that define your portfolio, screening, or research workflow. Then choose headlines, briefs, or full text depending on how deep you need to go. API, MCP, and web app access are included. Each headline costs 1 credit, each brief costs 2 credits, and each full text result costs 5 credits. For continuous investment monitoring, the annual plan is compelling because you pay for only 10 months and get 12 months of access, which gives you 2 months free.
Getting Started
Choose a plan
Pick monthly or annual billing. Annual billing gives two months free.
Set searches and filters
Use keywords, boolean operators, source, country, language, and date filters.
Use results in your workflow
Review in the web app or connect results to alerts, dashboards, API, MCP, Slack, Microsoft Teams, or WhatsApp.
Plans, credits, and subscribe links
Annual plans charge for 10 months and include 12 months of access, so you receive two months free. For news services, each headline uses 1 credit, each brief uses 2 credits, and each full story uses 5 credits. Platform services use the same credit-led plan structure for search and retrieval volume.