Ticker News

Overview

Ticker News resolves the ticker to its exact listing first, then gathers stories from financial news feeds that are already organised by ticker, so results are tied to the company rather than guessed from keywords. The same story carried by several outlets is returned once. Each story is checked for whether its headline or summary names the company or ticker: stories that do are tagged direct and returned by default, while sector round-ups and peer stories the feeds also carry are available with relevance=all. News is refreshed hourly for tickers in use and kept for 90 days.

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The tool

Once your client is connected to the VerveKit server, this appears in its tool list as TickerNews. It is read-only and open-world — it fetches and never mutates anything on your side — so most clients call it without asking you to confirm.

{
  "name": "TickerNews",
  "arguments": {
    "ticker": "AAPL"
  }
}

You do not name the tool yourself; the model picks it. Asking about AAPL in the terms this skill covers is enough for it to reach for TickerNews on its own — naming it explicitly also works, and is the way to force the call.

Connecting

One server URL covers every skill in the catalog, including this one. Authorization is OAuth: the client opens a browser once, and there is no key to paste into a config file.

{
  "mcpServers": {
    "vervekit": {
      "url": "https://api.vervekit.com/v1/mcp"
    }
  }
}

https://api.vervekit.com/v1/mcp

Per-client setup — Claude, Cursor, VS Code, ChatGPT — is on the MCP setup page.

Arguments

These are the properties on the tool's inputSchema, so a well-behaved client validates them before the call is made. Premium arguments are accepted on every plan but only take effect on plans that include them.

What the model gets back

The result carries a structuredContent object matching the tool's declared outputSchema, so a client reads fields without parsing prose. status is "ok" and error is null on success; a null field means the value was not available for that input, not that the call failed.

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{
  "status": "ok",
  "error": null,
  "data": {
    "ticker": "AAPL",
    "name": "Apple Inc. Common Stock",
    "market": "US",
    "exchange": "XNAS",
    "assetClass": "equity",
    "relevance": "direct",
    "lastUpdated": "2026-10-06T19:18:01.000Z",
    "count": 3,
    "articles": [
      {
        "title": "Scott Galloway: “Apple Wins by Showing Up Late” in AI, and Its New Home Hub Is the Test",
        "link": "https://www.tikr.com/blog/scott-galloway-apple-wins-by-showing-up-late-in-ai-and-its-new-home-hub-is-the-test?ref=yahoofinance",
        "source": "Yahoo Finance",
        "publisher": "tikr.com",
        "publishedAt": "2026-10-06T18:44:16.000Z",
        "relevance": "direct",
        "snippet": "Key TakeawaysApple is expected to launch its first smart home hub on Oct. 13, and Scott Galloway predicts it will be the top smart display by revenue within 18 months.",
        "sentiment": "very positive",
        "sentimentScore": 8
      },
      {
        "title": "Only Four Trillion-Dollar Stocks Are Beating the S&P 500. What’s Next for the Megacaps?",
        "link": "https://finance.yahoo.com/m/7003431f-36c8-336f-bf14-80d032b6a728/only-four-trillion-dollar.html",
        "source": "Yahoo Finance",
        "publisher": "finance.yahoo.com",
        "publishedAt": "2026-10-06T18:22:00.000Z",
        "relevance": "direct",
        "snippet": "Only four trillion-dollar companies, including Nvidia and Apple, have beaten the S&P 500 this year, but recent rallies have left several looking overbought.",
        "sentiment": "very negative",
        "sentimentScore": -3
      },
      {
        "title": "Apple's Market Value Grew From $350 Billion to $4.75 Trillion During Tim Cook's 15 Years as CEO. Here's What That Growth Curve Means for Betting on Apple's Next Chapter Under John Ternus.",
        "link": "https://www.fool.com/investing/2026/10/06/apples-market-value-grew-from-350-billion-to-475-t/",
        "source": "Yahoo Finance",
        "publisher": "fool.com",
        "publishedAt": "2026-10-06T17:12:00.000Z",
        "relevance": "direct",
        "snippet": "Ternus is inheriting a well-oiled machine, but Apple's growth may slow in the coming years.",
        "sentiment": "very positive",
        "sentimentScore": 4
      }
    ]
  }
}

Response fields

Paths are relative to data. Premium fields are absent rather than zeroed on plans that do not include them, so check for presence instead of comparing to 0.

Failure modes

Errors come back as tool errors carrying a sentence the model can act on, not a bare status code. Error handling covers the full list.

A call costs 2 credits each time the tool actually runs; a model that reasons about the tool without calling it costs nothing.

Use cases

Portfolio News Feeds

Trading and portfolio apps show the latest stories for every holding on a watchlist or position screen.

Event Monitoring

Research tools and alerting services watch a list of tickers for new stories and flag the ones that mention the company.

Stock Pages

Finance sites and dashboards add a news panel to each ticker page without running their own news crawler.

Research Context

Analysts and AI assistants pull the recent headlines behind a price move before writing a note or answering a question.

Other ways to use Ticker News

Set up Ticker News on VerveKit, or reach the same source a different way. Your VerveKit account and credits work on all of them — one key, one balance.

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