How news data is published?

I have an stupid question.. just curious...
How the news data are published to the world? I mean, for example, this friday NFP number.. -4K... was expected 110K... and then at the precise instant... the -4K number is published somewhere.. and all the news providers publish the -4K number... So... Where is the number coming from?

and the question is a bit deeper... I think the number has to remain secret until the precise instant... otherwise it wouldn't make a surprise... But how can it be warranted to be secret? Someone has to know it before the precise moment. I was thinking... how it is... if big players can have the information 1 or 2 minutes before... I can imagine all kinds of subornation... Knowing this kind of data in advance is big money.

So, is there any kind of security to the news data feed? How does it work?

Hi emda;
Most news data is released by the appropriate agencies at a specific time, via their wire services (to the news services), directly to reporters via a news conference, and on their websites. Note that for complex releases such as governmental budgets, reporters can be given early access, but then are physically locked up until the actual release time.

To get the raw news data as it is released by the appropriate agency, go to the "calendar" link at the top of this page. When you bring up that page, you'll see a column listing "detail", click on that and in most cases this will provide links to where the news is actually released. If your like your news unfiltered doing this a few minutes prior to the the release, and then checking the appropriate website a minute or so after the the release time, will give you the full text. Then you have to sort through it yourself....

Secrecy is very important in these things; as you point out, anyone who had access to the NFP numbers 5 minutes prior could have made some serious money. Sometimes they do slip out by accident (but that's increasingly rare); one or two major private releases (Chicago PMI? Can't remember which) are released to paying customers several minutes ahead of the public release.; there was one case a few years back where a "test release" was left on a site a few minutes prior to an actual release, and many people jumped on it thinking they had a scoop and lost big when the real numbers came out. But from what I've seen measures for the security of financial information generally outstrip even most military security, even though detecting the leakage of material is much easier, since anyone who consistently acted on some prior knowlege would be pretty obvious.

FWIW - this primarily focuses on the major western countries; not all countries are the same in that respect.

Interesting Halifax. I was also told that the majority of these releases have preformatted reports that basically say as expected, higher than expected, or less than expected scenarios. The only blank to fill in are the actual numbers. I've wondered about that as well as to how this is all done so fast. Somebody has to be locked in a room somewhere with their finger on the send button also...

a bit late... but thank you for your replies...

It is still a bit strange for me how can the data be transported from one location to another location before publishing it in the website.. or the electronic way... or how the data is collected day by day until the final number is collected and calculated from all the offices of employment of the states... not sure also if anyone is going to investigate somebody that always wins at news time...

and if big players doesn't care about news events... it is that forex has to be easier than I think and you can make money constantly without worrying about the news

I wonder what fraction of the FX mkt actively propels the market on news momentum and what fraction simply hitches a ride. Surely the former would have to be the biggies to have a discernable impact?

statistic. Let's say you buy a new car this month. You(or your car dealer) will report to the finnance (at least in my country) that you bought a new shinny car. There(at the finnance institute) they built up statistic with everyone who bought a new car last month, and they send it to the national statistic organisation. There they calculate all the availabel data and came out with a number.

This was a very easy and simple case. I bet they can be more complicated.

Hope this helped