Message News (B)

The news message is a general free format message between the broker and institution. The message contains flags to identify the news item's urgency and to allow sorting by subject company (symbol). The News message can be originated at either the broker or institution side, or exchanges and other marketplace venues.

Added in protocol FIX.2.7

See in: FIX.4.0, FIX.4.1, FIX.4.2, FIX.4.3, FIX.4.4, FIX.5.0, FIX.5.0SP1, FIX.5.0SP2 EP240.

Field or Component Name Description Is Required Added Is Deprecated
Block StandardHeader MsgType = B Y FIX.2.7
Block ApplicationSequenceControl FIX.5.0
1472 NewsID Unique identifer for News message FIX.5.0SP1 (90)
ImplicitBlockRepeating NewsRefGrp News items referenced by this News message FIX.5.0SP1 (90)
1473 NewsCategory FIX.5.0SP1 (90)
1474 LanguageCode Used to optionally specify the national language used for the News item. FIX.5.0SP1 (90)
42 OrigTime FIX.2.7
61 Urgency FIX.2.7
148 Headline Specifies the headline text Y FIX.4.1
358 EncodedHeadlineLen Must be set if EncodedHeadline (359) field is specified and must immediately precede it. FIX.4.2
359 EncodedHeadline Encoded (non-ASCII characters) representation of the Headline (148) field in the encoded format specified via the MessageEncoding (347) field. FIX.4.2
ImplicitBlockRepeating RoutingGrp Required if any RoutingType and RoutingIDs are specified. Indicates the number within repeating group. FIX.4.4
1301 MarketID Used to optionally specify the market to which this News applies. FIX.5.0SP1 (90)
1300 MarketSegmentID Used to optionally specify the market segment to which this News applies. FIX.5.0SP1 (90)
ImplicitBlockRepeating InstrmtGrp Specifies the number of repeating symbols (instruments) specified FIX.4.4
OptimisedImplicitBlockRepeating InstrmtLegGrp Number of legs Identifies a Multi-leg Execution if present and non-zero. FIX.4.4
OptimisedImplicitBlockRepeating UndInstrmtGrp Number of underlyings FIX.4.4
ImplicitBlockRepeating LinesOfTextGrp Specifies the number of repeating lines of text specified Y FIX.4.4
149 URLLink A URL (Uniform Resource Locator) link to additional information (i.e. http://www.XYZ.com/research.html) FIX.4.1
95 RawDataLength FIX.2.7
96 RawData FIX.2.7
Block StandardTrailer Y FIX.2.7