When market headlines publish, by New York clock hour
Answered against 22 years of US equities and 12 years of US options data and published with the query that produced it. This result is stored as of 2026-08-22, from h5i-db: Point-in-Time Data for Backtests.
| et_hour | articles |
|---|---|
| 00:00 | 184 |
| 01:00 | 274 |
| 02:00 | 353 |
| 03:00 | 340 |
| 04:00 | 504 |
| 05:00 | 560 |
| 06:00 | 739 |
| 07:00 | 704 |
| 08:00 | 826 |
| 09:00 | 728 |
| 10:00 | 753 |
| 11:00 | 706 |
| 12:00 | 962 |
| 13:00 | 839 |
| 14:00 | 702 |
| 15:00 | 679 |
| 16:00 | 811 |
| 17:00 | 783 |
| 18:00 | 547 |
| 19:00 | 493 |
| 20:00 | 378 |
| 21:00 | 304 |
| 22:00 | 306 |
| 23:00 | 230 |
- Rows × columns
- 24 × 2
- Computed
- Completeness
- No missing values
- Source
- US exchange, SIP and OPRA market data
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What each column holds
| Column | Type | Range | Notes |
|---|---|---|---|
et_hour |
text | 24 distinct values (00:00, 01:00, 02:00…) | |
articles |
number | 184 to 962 |
Computed from Strasmore's warehouse of US exchange, SIP and OPRA market data. Equity prices are delayed; options greeks and implied volatility are end-of-day. This result is stored, not recomputed on load — it is exactly the numbers that were returned on , and the query below is what returned them.
the exact SQL behind every number
SELECT
formatDateTime(toTimeZone(published_utc, 'America/New_York'), '%H:00') AS et_hour,
countDistinct(id) AS articles
FROM global_markets.stocks_news
WHERE published_utc >= today() - 90
GROUP BY et_hour
ORDER BY et_hour
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