Best Free News Tools for Investors

TradingView

TradingView combines charts, screeners, alerts, Pine Script, paper trading, and broker connections across many asset classes. Basic is free. Paid plans raise chart, indicator, alert, watchlist, history, and portfolio limits. Some real-time exchange data costs extra.

Koyfin

Koyfin is a web and mobile research terminal with dashboards, charts, screens, portfolios, news, alerts, transcripts, and market data across equities, funds, macro, FX, commodities, crypto, and yield curves. Free access shows the workflow; paid and Advisor tiers add history, reports, alerts, integrations, and client portfolios. There is no public API.

Simply Wall St

Simply Wall St provides visual company reports, fair value estimates, dividend analysis, portfolio checks, broker imports, and global stock ideas. It suits long-term investors who prefer guided research to raw tables.

EPSMomentum

EPSMomentum focuses on earnings momentum and entry timing. It combines estimate revisions, post-earnings drift, timing signals, scanners, AI analysis, and market dashboards for U.S. stocks and ETFs.

TIKR

TIKR is a browser equity-research terminal for global fundamentals, statements, estimates, valuation, transcripts, filings, and screens. It suits long-term stock research; paid plans add history, coverage, exports, and higher workflow limits.

Fiscal.ai

Fiscal.ai combines a company-research terminal with REST, webhook, and MCP access. It covers financials, segments, KPIs, estimates, transcripts, filings, screens, valuation, ownership, fund letters, and AI-assisted research.

Stock Rover

Stock Rover combines fundamental data, portfolio analytics, dividend tracking, valuation tools, reports, ratings, broker-linked portfolios, and alerts. Coverage centers on North American securities. It does not provide trade execution or full strategy backtesting.

Alpha Vantage

Alpha Vantage is an API-first source for market and economic data. Developers, students, quants, and analysts can pull stocks, funds, FX, crypto, options, commodities, fundamentals, news, sentiment, and macro series with one key. The free quota is small, and commercial use needs separate licensing.

getquin

getquin tracks portfolios and net worth across connected accounts on web and mobile. Free covers core tracking; Premium adds AI, dividends, and advanced analysis; Wealth adds planning and retirement tools. The public pricing page lists Euro annual prices before local tax.

SentiSense

SentiSense is a beta AI market-intelligence and data API service for stock data, sentiment, news clusters, social signals, institutional flows, insider trades, congressional disclosures, and generated analysis. It supplies research signals, not brokerage or advice.

BuySide Digest - Hedge Fund Letter Database

BuySide Digest is a free searchable collection of hedge-fund letters, manager commentary, tickers, themes, quarters, 13F context, and investment pitches. It is useful for qualitative idea work and alerts when new letters appear. The documents are public, delayed, and opinions rather than live signals.

ORTEX

ORTEX combines short interest, securities lending, options flow, and trading-signal data for active investors, analysts, and data teams. Deeper web and API access sits behind paid tiers. It is a signal service, not a broker or portfolio ledger.

EODHD

EODHD supplies market data through REST, WebSocket, spreadsheet, and agent interfaces. Datasets cover prices, fundamentals, calendars, news, sentiment, options, foreign exchange, and crypto. The free quota is 20 calls per day, commercial use requires a B2B plan, and some datasets are separate marketplace products.

IPO Watch (ipowatch.in)

IPO Watch tracks Indian mainboard and SME IPOs, GMP, subscriptions, allotments, listings, and related corporate actions. It is not a broker or SEBI-registered adviser. Verify issue terms and application status with the exchange, registrar, prospectus, and broker.

Quiver Quantitative

Quiver Quantitative provides dashboards, screens, alerts, backtests, and APIs for political trades, insiders, institutions, lobbying, government contracts, patents, apps, ETFs, dark pools, and other alternative data. Web Premium and Quiver API are separate products, and the signals can be noisy or delayed.

The Wall Street Journal (WSJ)

The Wall Street Journal combines subscription business news with markets coverage, quotes, watchlists, screeners, portfolios, newsletters, and analysis. It suits readers who want reporting and market context, not a broker, public API, or full quant terminal.

Zacks (Zacks.com)

Zacks combines stock research, rankings, earnings estimates, screens, reports, portfolios, and newsletters around its earnings-revision methodology. It suits self-directed investors who want structured ideas, not brokerage execution or a fully open quant platform.

Unusual Whales

Unusual Whales tracks options flow, dark pools, congressional trades, insider activity, market data, alerts, screeners, and social sentiment. It is built for active traders and alternative-data research, not a broker, portfolio ledger, or guarantee that unusual activity predicts returns.

CapEdge

CapEdge combines SEC filings, transcripts, financials, ownership data, IPO tracking, ETF exposure, and short-interest data. It is free, but some tables require an account.

Roic AI

Roic AI provides company financials, ratios, valuations, transcripts, news, stock screens, spreadsheet add-ins, a REST API, and an MCP server. Plans differ by request rate, financial and transcript history, and commercial-use rights.

Snowball Analytics

Snowball Analytics tracks portfolios, performance, dividends, and allocations through web and mobile applications. It supports broker and file imports, multiple currencies, benchmarks, fund look-through, and historical portfolio tests. It is not a broker, registered adviser, or tax-filing service.

ChartMill

ChartMill is a browser screener and charting service for U.S., Canadian, and European stocks and some ETFs. It supports technical and fundamental screens, swing-trading ideas, watchlists, alerts, dashboards, ratings, and strategy templates. It is still a research tool, not a broker or full portfolio ledger.

Delta by eToro

Delta by eToro is a read-only tracker for stocks, ETFs, funds, crypto, NFTs, forex, commodities, indices, brokers, exchanges, and wallets. Use it to see several accounts in one place. It adds visibility, not another trading venue.

Earnings Hub

Earnings Hub tracks earnings dates, estimates, results, calls, transcripts, filings, alerts, and watchlists. Its economic, dividend, and IPO calendars extend the event view beyond quarterly reports.

Federal Reserve Board (FRB.gov)

FRB.gov is the Federal Reserve's primary source for policy material, FOMC dates, statistical releases, interest rates, balance sheets, bank data, FX, industrial production, and downloadable series. It is official macro infrastructure, not a commercial investing terminal.

Finimize

Finimize turns market news and investing education into a daily newsletter and mobile app. Free readers get concise finance news; Pro adds investment theses, entry points, risks, sizing, ongoing coverage, live ideas, model portfolios, and performance tracking. It is a content and ideas service, not a broker, accounting tool, API, or deep analytics terminal.

Google Trends

Google Trends measures relative search interest by place and time. Investors use it to watch attention, demand proxies, brand momentum, consumer themes, and news spikes. The index is normalized, not exact query volume or revenue. The web interface is broad, while official API access is limited and BigQuery covers selected queries.

MSN Money

MSN Money is a free Microsoft finance portal for market news, quotes, watchlists, company pages, earnings calendars, funds, and basic personal finance. It is for casual monitoring and beginner research, not professional analytics or trading.

Tickertape

Tickertape is an India-first web and mobile research app for stocks, funds, ETFs, screens, portfolios, alerts, events, forecasts, and broker-linked holdings. Free covers the core workflow; Pro adds custom screens, exports, historical sentiment, alerts, forecasts, and multi-account tools. It is not a global terminal or raw API.

Value Line

Value Line publishes analyst reports, proprietary ranks, screens, model portfolios, fund and ETF research, options research, and selection newsletters. Product coverage and online-tool limits depend on the subscription.

Zenvesto

Zenvesto is a portfolio and market-monitoring app for stocks and crypto with watchlists, gainers, losers, alerts, and basic research views. It is a lightweight tracking tool, not a full terminal, broker, or tax-accounting system.

TipRanks

TipRanks combines analyst ratings, targets, expert rankings, Smart Score, AI analysis, news sentiment, insider signals, hedge-fund activity, and portfolios. It is useful for comparing market views quickly, with Premium and Ultimate adding deeper expert, portfolio, export, and AI tools.

Dividend Watch

Dividend Watch tracks income portfolios with forecasts, calendars, safety scores, stock and ETF research, and broker sync. Pro adds DRIP records and curated ideas. The free tier is small, and the service is not a broker or live terminal.

Google Finance

Google Finance provides quotes, charts, financial news, watchlists, portfolios, earnings context, and AI-assisted research for signed-in users. It supports market monitoring, not brokerage execution or professional data feeds.

CEO Watcher

CEO Watcher organizes US insider transactions by historical forward returns, win rates, trade patterns, and filing context. A free weekly newsletter covers selected trades; paid access adds search, feeds, Discord, alerts, and a daily pre-market email.

MarketWatch

MarketWatch combines Dow Jones financial news with quotes, watchlists, screens, calendars, BigCharts, options chains, fund research, rates, newsletters, and Virtual Stock Exchange. It is a consumer market site, not a broker, professional terminal, API, or modeling system; delays and subscription boundaries still apply.

Screener.in

Screener.in is an India-focused stock screener with company pages, custom queries, watchlists, alerts, exports, filings, shareholding data, and Screener AI. Premium adds exports, higher alert limits, detailed peers, segments, concall notes, product trends, and AI credits. It is not a global broker.

Trading Economics

Trading Economics provides indicators, calendars, forecasts, market data, company financials, news, ratings, and events through web, REST, WebSocket, spreadsheet, BI, and AI integrations. It is data infrastructure for dashboards and pipelines, not a broker or adviser. Plans control streaming, limits, and commercial rights.

AlphaResearch

AlphaResearch puts filings, transcripts, press releases, estimates, news, insider trades, ownership, and fund holdings in one searchable workspace. It is aimed at document-heavy research. Global coverage and spreadsheet add-ins require Enterprise, and the premium trial asks for a card.

BizToc

BizToc aggregates business and finance stories in a configurable grid and chronological Wire feed. It also provides a market snapshot, imagery view, search, RSS, and a RapidAPI feed. Users should open the original publisher before relying on a story.