TradeNewsCast has moved to SquawkNews. You get the same idea a trading desk pays hundreds a month for: someone watching the wires and saying the important line out loud — plus the text, the ticker and the chart to check it against. Passes from $15, nothing to sign, cancel whenever you like.
Public tools — markets, briefs, calendar and search — stay free at squawknews.com.
We’ve transferred all active TradeNewsCast accounts to SquawkNews. Sign in with the same email and password — nothing else to set up. Need help? Contact us.
A big terminal sells you an entire workstation. Most traders only need one slice of it in a fast market: a reliable stream of headlines, sorted by how much they matter, with the urgent ones spoken aloud. That slice is what SquawkNews builds — written by its own editors with in-house AI, not a feed of other people’s headlines pasted together.
When something breaks, a dozen outlets repeat it. You get one headline per event with an impact grade, and new details arrive as updates to that story — so the feed stays readable on the busiest days.
Each story is tied to its tickers. Open Charts & News and the headline appears as a marker on the candles, so you can line up the time of the report with the price action around it.
Only higher-impact stories are spoken; routine items wait quietly in the list. Your eyes can stay on the order ticket while your ears keep track of the news.
Markets reprice on new information. A data release, a sentence from a central banker or a surprise in guidance can move an index, a currency or a single stock within seconds — and the biggest part of the move often happens before most people have finished reading. A sudden 40-point drop in ES looks the same on every chart. With the headline in your ear, you at least know what you are looking at.
Market waits. Consensus is known; positions are set for an in-line number.
CPI prints hotter than expected. The number hits the wires.
Headline on screen and read aloud. Short-dated yields jump, the dollar firms, equity index futures drop.
Details follow: core vs headline, revisions, comments from officials. The first move is not always the final one.
Why it can move: strong jobs or hot inflation can push back rate-cut expectations. Yields rise, the dollar strengthens, rate-sensitive stocks and gold often fall.
Why speed matters: the first reaction happens in seconds; knowing the number vs consensus tells you whether the move has a real reason.
Why it can move: the decision is often priced in — the wording isn’t. One changed phrase, or one answer in the press conference, can reverse the initial move.
Why speed matters: you hear the key line while watching the chart, instead of reading a 600-word statement mid-volatility.
Why it can move: markets trade the future. A beat with weak guidance can send a stock lower — and drag its sector and suppliers after hours.
Why speed matters: after-hours liquidity is thin; the follow-up headlines from the call decide whether the gap holds into the open.
Why it can move: supply risk lifts crude within minutes; energy names rally, airlines and transports fall, safe havens bid.
Why speed matters: these headlines often break outside US hours — an audio alert reaches you when nobody is staring at the screen.
Why it can move: trade policy hits specific sectors and currencies at once — exporters, importers, supply chains and the currencies of affected countries.
Why speed matters: political headlines arrive without a calendar slot. You can’t prepare for them — you can only hear them first.
Why it can move: takeovers, regulatory decisions, 8-K filings and executive departures reprice a stock instantly — often with a gap.
Why speed matters: if you hold the name, a fast headline is the difference between managing the position and discovering the gap.
Headlines above are illustrative examples of typical market-moving events, not real reports. For a deeper look at expectations, liquidity and positioning, read why news moves markets on SquawkNews.
Know why the market is suddenly moving against you — and decide in seconds whether to cut, hedge or hold, instead of guessing from the candles.
Hear the scheduled release coming up and flatten or tighten risk before it lands.
Fast sessions are full of spikes. Knowing the actual headline — and how the number compared with forecasts — helps you judge whether a move has an identifiable reason or is just a burst of order flow.
Session briefs and market context explain what drove the day, so tomorrow’s plan is based on causes, not just on yesterday’s chart pattern.
Not every headline deserves your attention. Choose how talkative the audio should be and change it whenever the session changes — quieter for a calm afternoon, busier around a data release. Each spoken line has a matching text headline, and the five voices are clearly identified as AI.
Speaks up only for the calls you can’t afford to miss — breaking stories, top-tier data and urgent corrections.
A working desk’s worth of updates: the urgent calls plus market wraps, index futures, currencies, crude and individual stock moves.
Reads every story graded 3 or higher, each once, in the order it arrives. Starts from now — nothing queued from earlier.
Tell us the markets, tickers and topics you trade, and we set up the filters and spoken coverage for you — included in the subscription.
Traditional squawk services were built for bank and fund desks and priced for them. SquawkNews is self-serve: no seat licences, no annual lock-in, no sales call — and short passes if you only need the big weeks.
| Service | Entry price | Short-term pass | Audio squawk | Ticker context on charts | AI market assistant | Contract |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| SquawkNews LiveCast | $15 (3 days) · $90 / 30 days | $15 / 3 days · $35 / 7 days | Included · 3 modes + custom | Charts & News | Included | None · cancel any time |
| Newsquawk | $199 / mo (one channel) · $399 Pro | Paid Pro trial | Included | — | — | Monthly or annual |
| LiveSquawk | $350 / mo | Trial | Included | — | — | Monthly or annual |
| Benzinga Pro | $147–197 / mo with squawk | Trial | Equity squawk | Scanner & charts | Benzinga AI | Monthly or annual |
| Bloomberg Terminal | ~$2,300–2,700 / mo | — | Separate | Full platform | Yes | Typically 2-year |
Competitor prices and features are taken from publicly available pricing pages and reviews as of October 2026 and may change; they differ in scope (for example, Bloomberg is a full data, analytics and execution platform). Savings are based on 12 months of SquawkNews 30-day access ($1,080) vs monthly list prices.
TradeNewsCast has joined SquawkNews. The live headline feed, audio squawk and economic calendar now run on squawknews.com — together with Charts & News, session briefs, macro and politics coverage and an AI market assistant.
Nothing to set up. All active accounts have been transferred to SquawkNews — sign in with the same email and password. If anything looks wrong, contact us.
On bank trading floors, a “squawk box” was a speaker on every desk that broadcast breaking news and calls from the analysts. Services like Newsquawk and LiveSquawk brought that to individual traders at institutional prices. LiveCast is the same concept in a browser tab — with AI voices instead of a studio, which is a large part of why it costs less.
Those services were built around large analyst teams for bank and fund desks. SquawkNews combines an editorial team with proprietary AI and a self-serve model — no seat licences, no sales process — and passes the difference on: 30-day access is $90 versus $199–$399 a month for traditional squawk services.
Quite a lot. You can browse the market dashboards, read the daily briefs, check the calendar, search past news and ask the AI assistant a limited number of questions without paying or registering. What you pay for is speed and sound: the live feed, the voice channel and charts without the 15-minute delay.
If you trade index futures, currencies, US stocks, bonds, oil or metals, it is in scope — along with the things that drive them: data releases, central bank meetings, company results and the political side of the market such as tariffs, sanctions and elections.
No. We report events and explain the context; impact grades are an editorial judgement, not a forecast. Every decision — and its risk — stays with you.
Start with a 3-day pass for $15 or take 30 days for $90 — up to 77% less than a traditional squawk service.