Filtering news articles by subject qcode

ek01 · 2025-03-05T21:41:57+00:00

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I am trying to filter news articles received via Refinitiv News Archive service based on presence of subject qcodes. For example, I have a news article with a headline of "INFINEON TECHNOLOGIES AG <IFXGn.DE> SHARES DOWN 4.5% IN EARLY FRANKFURT TRADE AFTER RESULTS", which I do NOT need to see. This article has a total of 34 different subject qcodes appended to it.

I have a document from Refinitiv that is supposed to contain a list of all RDP news codes as of Nov 12th, 2024. However, when I tried looking up each of the 34 qcodes appended to the news article, only 3 of them were found in the document:

G:D3 (Europe, Middle East and Africa)
M:2DZ (Public company news (added automatically to stories that discuss a public company)).
M:Z (Company news (added automatically when a story contains any company RIC)).

How/where can I look up the meaning of the remaining 31 subject qcodes appended to the article (for example A:1, A:C, B:161 and so on) so I can put the correct filter together.

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raksina.samasiri

Hi @ek01 ,

You can use News Monitor 2.0 application in LSEG Workspace. To access the app, simply type NEWS2.0 in the Workspace search bar.

Then in the search bar of News Monitor, you can put the qcode there and then press enter button, the meaning of the qcode input will be shown instead.

and to get query to search for this, you can double-click in the search bar of News Monitor, the query to be used will be returned

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Jirapongse

You can access the News codes from the Machine Readable News - News codes file.

You can also refer to this Exploring News Metadata - with Refinitiv Data Platform and Python article.

ek01

Hi @raksina.samasiri

We are using a service called Refinitiv News Archive. It provides news articles in JSON format via SFTP. We do not have access to the News Monitor application. Is there a reference document that contains ALL subject values? To re-iterate, the News codes document cited by others in this thread does NOT contain all subject qcodes.

Eugene

ek01

Hi @Jirapongse

The document you are referring to does not contain subject qcodes listed in the news articles I am working with. For example, I have a news article about a Infineon stock going up 40% in Germany and it has 34 qcodes applied to it:

"A:1"

"A:C"

"B:161"

"B:162"

"B:163"

"B:164"

"B:1740"

"B:278"

"B:279"

"E:1"

"E:G"

"E:Q"

"G:3D"

"G:3"

"G:AL"

"G:A"

"G:B"

"G:D3"

"M:1NZ"

"M:1P2"

"M:1QD"

"M:2CM"

"M:2CN"

"M:2CP"

"M:2CQ"

"M:2CR"

"M:2CS"

"M:2CT"

"M:2CU"

"M:2CV"

"M:2DZ"

"M:Z"

"P:4295870063"

"R:IFXGn.DE"

NOTE: I realize that the last qcode is a RIC.

However, when I tried looking up each of the remaining 33 qcodes appended to the news article, only 3 of them were found in the document you cited:

G:D3 (Europe, Middle East and Africa)
M:2DZ (Public company news (added automatically to stories that discuss a public company)).
M:Z (Company news (added automatically when a story contains any company RIC)).

How/where can I look up the meaning of the remaining 30 subject qcodes appended to the article (for example A:1, A:C, B:161 and so on) so I can put the correct filter together?

News article JSON is attached.

article_1000515.json.txt

Jirapongse

In this case, please contact the helpdesk team directly via MyAccount to verify the document.

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