Searching for news 

Save time searching, filtering or repeating news searches on key topics or markets with our News List widget. Understand the markets that matter to you by creating a customized news feed, multiple saved searches to display alongside prices and charts.

Using the News widget

• Click Add Widget from the top menu
• Select News List widget
• Choose from Recommended news lists e.g. Base Metals, Steel or Steel scrap or
• Use the search bar for the commodity, location, product or source you want to filter by with our search assist
• Select the workspace you want to add the widget to from the left-hand sidebar.

How to search for news

• Start a search by clicking on the magnifying glass icon in the top menu and begin your search
• Enter a search term (e.g. “copper”) for the news you are looking for – like with price searches you can search and filter by product, commodity, location or source. Search filters appear in the Filters applied bar in a grey box.
• Select the result such as “Commodity:Copper” you were looking for from the suggested options in the drop-down menu to populate a list of news content
• You can further narrow down the list of news by entering any additional search filters and selecting it from the drop-down, e.g. “Location:China“. Click the ARTICLES tab to view the results.
• When you hover the cursor over any article in the list the “Launch article” icon is displayed. This icon looks like a purple square with an arrow pointing to the top-right corner.
• Click on the “Launch article” icon to open the article in a floating window.

Search for news using pre-populated search filters

When adding a News List widget the Search Tool will provide easy to use pre-populated search criteria making it faster to find the news for the markets you follow. In this example Base metals has been selected, adding relevant filters:

Search by keyword(s) for news 

Searching by keyword(s) will return results for stories with the word(s) in the headline or body text of an article. Click on the ALL tab for price and news results. Click PRICES or ARTICLES to view results returned specifically under those tabs.

• Start a search by clicking on the magnifying glass icon in the top menu and begin your search
• Enter your keyword search term (e.g. freeport mcmoran). Keywords appear at the top of the criteria with a purple border.
• Click the ARTICLES tab to view a list of news articles where this keyword appears
• Click the “Launch article” icon to the right of the headline to view the news article.

Filter news search results by date and/or relevancy

Use the Global Search tool at the top of the Dashboard to save time finding news articles by using the date filter:

• Start a search by clicking on the magnifying glass icon in the top menu and begin your search
• Enter a search term (e.g. “base metals”) for the news you are looking for – like with price searches you can search and filter by product, commodity, location or source
• Select the result you were looking for from the suggested options in the drop-down menu to populate a list of news content
• Click the ARTICLES tab to view a list of news articles where this keyword appears
• By default, the search results will be returned with the most recent appearing at the top. This can be changed to most relevant by selecting ‘Most relevant first’ from the Show menu above.

By default, the date range for the news search results is ‘All’. To narrow the search results by date, select from the Date range menu above the search results. The available date range selections are the last 24 hours, last week, last month, last 6 months or last year.

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