News Sentiment

Pulls recent news headlines and sentiment from Yahoo Finance for any stock ticker. You'd reach for this when someone asks what's happening with a company or if there's been any significant news. It returns articles with publisher info and timestamps, plus a quick sentiment summary so you don't have to read through everything. The output is timezone-aware (New York time), which matters if you're trading or need to correlate news with market moves. Simple Python script under the hood using yfinance, defaults to 10 articles but you can adjust. Honestly most useful for getting a quick pulse check rather than deep analysis.

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last updated: Aug 21, 2026

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Install

$ npx -y skills add staskh/trading_skills --skill news-sentiment --agent claude-code

Installs into .claude/skills of the current project.

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News Sentiment

Fetch recent news from Yahoo Finance: yfinance's ticker news first, then Yahoo's per-ticker RSS feed when that comes back empty or fails.

Instructions

Note: If uv is not installed or pyproject.toml is not found, replace uv run python with python in all commands below.

uv run python scripts/news.py SYMBOL [--limit LIMIT]

Arguments

SYMBOL - Ticker symbol
--limit - Number of articles (default: 10)

Output

Returns JSON with:

articles - Array of recent news with title, publisher, date (YYYY-MM-DD HH:MM ET), link, type
count - Number of articles returned
source - "yfinance" or "yahoo-rss"
note - With yahoo-rss: items are tagged to the ticker, not necessarily about it, and arrive newest first. publisher is the link's host (often finance.yahoo.com), since the feed carries no publisher
message: "No news found" - both sources answered with no articles
error - no articles and at least one source failed; never read this as "no news"