When headlines actually land: article counts by ET clock hour, July 2026
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 2026-08-01, from AI Daily Market Research Reports: What Breaks.
| et_hour | article_count | share_pct | cumulative_pct |
|---|---|---|---|
| 00:00 | 76 | 1.59 | 1.59 |
| 01:00 | 108 | 2.26 | 3.86 |
| 02:00 | 129 | 2.7 | 6.56 |
| 03:00 | 128 | 2.68 | 9.25 |
| 04:00 | 194 | 4.07 | 13.32 |
| 05:00 | 180 | 3.77 | 17.09 |
| 06:00 | 270 | 5.66 | 22.75 |
| 07:00 | 244 | 5.12 | 27.87 |
| 08:00 | 279 | 5.85 | 33.72 |
| 09:00 | 241 | 5.05 | 38.77 |
| 10:00 | 251 | 5.26 | 44.03 |
| 11:00 | 235 | 4.93 | 48.96 |
| 12:00 | 327 | 6.86 | 55.82 |
| 13:00 | 287 | 6.02 | 61.84 |
| 14:00 | 253 | 5.31 | 67.14 |
| 15:00 | 218 | 4.57 | 71.71 |
| 16:00 | 247 | 5.18 | 76.89 |
| 17:00 | 282 | 5.91 | 82.81 |
| 18:00 | 205 | 4.3 | 87.1 |
| 19:00 | 183 | 3.84 | 90.94 |
| 20:00 | 124 | 2.6 | 93.54 |
| 21:00 | 106 | 2.22 | 95.76 |
| 22:00 | 108 | 2.26 | 98.03 |
| 23:00 | 94 | 1.97 | 100 |
- Rows × columns
- 24 × 4
- Computed
- Completeness
- No missing values
- Source
- US exchange, SIP and OPRA market data
- Licence
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What each column holds
| Column | Type | Range | Notes |
|---|---|---|---|
et_hour |
text | 24 distinct values (00:00, 01:00, 02:00…) | |
article_count |
number | 76 to 327 | count |
share_pct |
number | 1.59 to 6.86 | percent |
cumulative_pct |
number | 1.59 to 100 | percent |
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.
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WITH hourly AS (
SELECT toHour(toTimeZone(published_utc, 'America/New_York')) AS hour_num,
count() AS articles
FROM global_markets.stocks_news
WHERE published_utc >= toDateTime('2026-07-01 04:00:00')
AND published_utc < toDateTime('2026-08-01 04:00:00')
GROUP BY hour_num
),
clock AS (
SELECT toUInt8(arrayJoin(range(24))) AS hour_num
)
SELECT concat(leftPad(toString(clock.hour_num), 2, '0'), ':00') AS et_hour,
ifNull(hourly.articles, 0) AS article_count,
round(100 * ifNull(hourly.articles, 0) / sum(ifNull(hourly.articles, 0)) OVER (), 2) AS share_pct,
round(100 * sum(ifNull(hourly.articles, 0)) OVER (ORDER BY clock.hour_num ASC)
/ sum(ifNull(hourly.articles, 0)) OVER (), 2) AS cumulative_pct
FROM clock
LEFT JOIN hourly ON clock.hour_num = hourly.hour_num
ORDER BY clock.hour_num ASC
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