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WorkWingman — News & the Stock (Plain Language)

This is a history lesson, not a prediction. For a public company, WorkWingman can show you its recent news alongside how the stock price ACTUALLY moved around each story's date. That's it — it looks backward at facts that already happened. It never guesses what the stock will do next, never says a story "will" or "should" move the price, and it's never telling you to buy or sell anything.

Why this matters: just because a stock moved on the day a story came out doesn't mean the story caused it — lots of things move stock prices at the same time, and only looking at one headline can't tell them apart. And even if it did cause it once, that tells you nothing about what happens with the next headline. Every screen in this feature repeats that reminder.

The idea

Before an interview, it can help to see the story of a company recently — did they have layoffs? Launch something? Report earnings? And, purely as a historical fact: did the stock price move a noticeable amount around that time? This is context for a conversation, not a signal to trade on.

What you'll see

For each recent news item about the company:

  • The headline, with a link to read it, its date, and where it came from.
  • A quick label — Negative, Neutral, or Positive — based only on the words in the headline itself (layoffs reads negative, a product launch reads positive). This label describes the story, not the stock. Sometimes a "positive" headline sits next to a price drop, or a "negative" one sits next to a price gain — that's normal, not a mistake, and this feature doesn't try to reconcile the two.
  • How much the stock actually moved in the few trading days around that date — a plain percentage, like "+2.87%" or "-4.21%," computed from real historical closing prices. If we don't have price data covering that date (this happens for private companies, or if the history just doesn't go back far enough), you'll see "no price data" instead of a guess.

What we do instead of guessing

WorkWingman never estimates a missing price or invents a "likely" move. If the historical price data doesn't cover a news item's date, that item still shows up with its headline and label — the price-move number is just left blank. Nothing here is ever made up to fill a gap.

A couple of honest caveats

  • Correlation isn't causation. A stock moving on the same day as a headline doesn't prove the headline caused the move — markets react to lots of things at once, and this feature can't tell which one mattered.
  • The past doesn't predict the future. Just because a stock moved a certain way after a similar-sounding story before doesn't mean it will again. This feature only ever describes what already happened.
  • Private companies won't show this section at all. No public stock price exists to compare against, so WorkWingman skips the whole feature for them rather than making something up.

Where this comes from

The news items and the historical prices both come from other parts of WorkWingman that are still being built alongside this one — a news source and a stock-price history source. This feature just pairs the two together and does the (very simple) math: how much did the price change from just before the story to a few trading days after it. Nothing about that math looks forward.