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Is there a way to tell if there is breaking news currently out on a company?

I'd like to avoid trading any companies that have breaking news that is material. It shoots a stock way up or down and messes up volume. Any source to follow so if a company has breaking news it can avoid being traded?

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anyone done anything to avoid headline news?

There is premium dataset for mergers here. Other than that I normally look for jumps in prices or returns. Sorry if I cannot offer more help.

I looked through the data sets and it doesn't look like there's a way to do this. if anyone comes up with an idea let me know here please! thanks.

The earnings date data set can be used to avoid trading around earnings report dates. The Psychsignal data set can be used to see if more traders are talking about a company than usual, which could indicate that news is about to come out.