Stay informed with the latest stock market news using the FMP Stock News Feed API. Access headlines, snippets, publication URLs, and ticker symbols for the most recent articles from a variety of sources.
AI agents call getStockNews to retrieve information from Financial Modeling Prep MCP Server without modifying anything — typically the context-gathering step in research, monitoring, and reporting workflows, before the agent takes action elsewhere.
getStockNews retrieves and queries financial news data without any side effects, state changes, or ability to execute operations. It is a passive read-only tool that fetches publicly available stock market news articles. No financial transactions occur, no data is modified, and no external operations are triggered by this tool.
From the tool's definition Tool provides 'headlines, snippets, publication URLs, and ticker symbols for the most recent articles' - purely informational retrieval with no modification, deletion, execution, or financial transaction capability.
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Stay informed with the latest stock market news using the FMP Stock News Feed API. Access headlines, snippets, publication URLs, and ticker symbols for the most recent articles from a variety of sources. It is categorised as a Read tool in the Financial Modeling Prep MCP Server MCP Server, which means it retrieves data without modifying state.
Register the Financial Modeling Prep MCP Server MCP server in PolicyLayer and add a rule for getStockNews: allow, deny, rate-limit, or require approval. Point your MCP client at the PolicyLayer proxy URL and the rule is enforced on every call, before it reaches Financial Modeling Prep MCP Server. Nothing to install.
getStockNews is a Read tool with low risk. Read-only tools are generally safe to allow by default.
Yes. Add a rate_limit block to the getStockNews rule in your PolicyLayer policy. For example, setting max: 10 and window: 60 limits the tool to 10 calls per minute. Rate limits are tracked per agent session and reset automatically.
Set action: deny in the PolicyLayer policy for getStockNews. The AI agent will receive a policy violation error and cannot call the tool. You can also include a reason field to explain why the tool is blocked.
getStockNews is provided by the Financial Modeling Prep MCP Server MCP server (vijitdaroch/financial-modeling-prep-mcp-server). PolicyLayer sits as a proxy in front of this server to enforce policies before tool calls reach the server.
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