One hop from the publisher.
The aggregator tax is real. We pay it once — at the source. Every filing, every press release, every exchange print arrives at our parsers the same moment it arrives at the desks that pay six figures a year for terminal access.
[01]The catalog
Every source named. Every delivery method audited. No vague "global news" bullet. The list is the contract.
SEC EDGAR
edgar.sec.gov
Long-poll, < 200 ms
8-K · 10-K · 10-Q · 13F · Form 4
Globe Newswire
globenewswire.com
Edge scrape, < 80 ms
Issuer releases · Corporate updates
BusinessWire
businesswire.com
Edge scrape, < 90 ms
Earnings · M&A · Guidance
NYSE TAQ
nyse.com
Co-located, < 1 ms
Trades · Quotes · Halts
NASDAQ
nasdaq.com
Co-located, < 1 ms
Trades · Quotes · Auctions
FRED
fred.stlouisfed.org
Webhook, < 60 ms
Rates · CPI · Employment
PR Newswire
prnewswire.com
Edge scrape, < 100 ms
Issuer releases · Newsroom
BoE / ECB
bankofengland.co.uk
Webhook + scrape
Rate decisions · Statements
[02]The race
Same headline. Three finish lines. One 8-K hits EDGAR at 16:01:03.000. Here's when it reaches the desks of the three audiences chasing it.
Forecite · direct
34 ms
Wire → parse → verdict → subscriber
Aggregator feed
820 ms
Wire → aggregator → repackage → you
Bloomberg terminal
2.4 s
Wire → terminal pipeline → screen
[03]Coverage
What lands in your stream, and where. The matrix is the spec. If a cell is partial today, the ETA is on our public roadmap.
| Category | US | EU | UK | APAC |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Regulatory filings | ||||
| Wire press releases | ||||
| Exchange market data | ||||
| Central bank releases | ||||
| Macro data prints | ||||
| Corporate disclosures |
[04]The math
Where the 34 ms actually goes. Latency budget, broken into stages. Nothing hidden, nothing rounded.
Source publish
0 ms
Wire hits its own CDN — t = 0
Edge fetch
5 ms
Scraper colocated with the wire's POP
Parse + de-dupe
3 ms
Strip boilerplate, extract entities & tickers
Verdict inference
22 ms
Single-pass actionability + sentiment
Push to subscriber
4 ms
Wire-encoded, anycast routed
End-to-end, P95
34 ms
Subscribe to the source, not the summary.
Audit every source we use, the path it takes, and the latency budget it lives in — before you point a single dollar of risk at it.
