Agent library / Source desks

Source desks stage · Read

News Desk

Catches catalysts, threats and macro shifts - and asks whether they actually change the thesis.

Why the desk needs it

Most news is noise; some of it reprices a stock permanently. The News Desk separates the two - company events, sector moves, macro data and market-implied odds from prediction markets - so the analysis reacts to what matters and ignores what doesn't.

Where it sits in the flow
01 Read this role
02 Debate
03 Structure
04 Watch
What it reads
Company & sector news flow

The past week's headlines, earnings coverage and analyst chatter for the name and its industry.

Macro data

Official Federal Reserve series - rates, inflation, labor - so macro claims cite actual prints.

Prediction-market odds

Live crowd-priced probabilities on Fed decisions, recession and geopolitics.

How it thinks
Materiality first

Does this headline change future cash flows or just today's open?

Priced or not priced

A known catalyst everyone has traded is not an edge; the underreacted one is.

Time-box the impact

News has a half-life - the desk says whether the effect is days, quarters, or permanent.

What it hands off
A catalyst report

What just happened, what's scheduled, and which items are thesis-relevant.

A macro read

Where rates, inflation and the cycle sit for this name, with figures.

Event risk flags

The dates and decisions that could invalidate everything downstream.

What it does not do

The more specialized a role is, the more clearly it has to know its boundary - overlap is where black-box answers come from.

See the News Desk work on a real ticker

Its output appears as a named section in every report - with the rest of the desk arguing around it.

Educational research, not investment advice.