The News (B) 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 (B) message can be originated at either the broker or institution side.
| Tag | Field Name | Req'd | Comments | ||
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| <Standard Message Header> | Y | MsgType = B |
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| 42 | OrigTime | N | |||
| 61 | Urgency | N | |||
| 148 | Headline | Y | Specifies the headline text |
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| 358 | EncodedHeadlineLen | C | Must be set if EncodedHeadline (359) field is specified and
must immediately precede it. |
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| 359 | EncodedHeadline | C | Encoded (non-ASCII characters) representation of the Headline (148) field in the encoded format specified via the MessageEncoding (347) field. |
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| 215 | NoRoutingIDs | C | Required if any RoutingType (216) and RoutingIDs are
specified. Indicates the number within repeating group. |
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| => | 216 | RoutingType | C | Indicates type of RoutingID. Required if NoRoutingIDs (215) is > 0. |
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| => | 217 | RoutingID | C | Identifies routing destination. Required if NoRoutingIDs (215) is > 0. |
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| 146 | NoRelatedSym | C | Specifies the number of repeating symbols (instruments) specified |
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| => | Component Block - <Instrument> | N | |||
| 555 | NoLegs | N | Number of legs. Identifies a Multi-leg Execution if present and non-zero. |
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| => | Component Block - <InstrumentLeg> | C | Must be provided if Number of legs > 0 |
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| 711 | NoUnderlyings | N | Number of underlyings |
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| => | Component Block - <UnderlyingInstrument> | C | Must be provided if Number of underlyings > 0 |
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| 33 | LinesOfText | Y | Specifies the number of repeating lines of text specified |
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| => | 58 | Text | Y | Repeating field, number of instances defined in LinesOfText (33)
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| => | 354 | EncodedTextLen | C | Must be set if EncodedText (355) field is specified and
must immediately precede it. |
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| => | 355 | EncodedText | C | Encoded (non-ASCII characters) representation of the Text (58) field in the encoded format specified via the MessageEncoding (347) field. |
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| 149 | URLLink | N | A URL (Uniform Resource Locator) link to additional information (i.e. http://www.XYZ.com/research.html) |
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| 95 | RawDataLength | C | |||
| 96 | RawData | C | |||
| <Standard Message Trailer> | Y | ||||