About The Bid Side
The Bid Side is a finance news aggregator. It watches 26 public feeds — newspapers, wire services, and 5 central banks and regulators publishing their own announcements — and puts the newest headlines on one page.
It exists because following finance properly means checking a dozen sites, and the stories that matter most often break at a regulator rather than a newspaper.
How it works
Every 10 minutes the site refetches each publisher's RSS feed. For each item we keep four things: the headline, the link, the timestamp, and the short excerpt the publisher chose to put in their own feed.
We do not reproduce article bodies and we do not host publisher images. Clicking a headline opens a page on this site showing the market read-through first, with the publisher named at the top and a link to the full article above the analysis. The source name next to every headline always links straight to the article, so you can skip us entirely in one click.
Stories that appear in several feeds are collapsed to one entry, and anything older than two weeks is dropped. When a feed fails, it is skipped and marked on the sources page rather than breaking the site.
Sections
Blast radius
Some stories carry a panel showing which listed companies plausibly face a tailwind or a headwind from what happened, and why. A knock-on tag means the company is not named in the story — it was reached by inference from whoever is, such as a supplier or a competitor.
This is generated by a language model reading only the headline and the excerpt. It is not research, not a forecast, not a valuation, and not a recommendation. It describes a plausible direction of exposure and states its reasoning so you can judge it yourself.
It is wrong sometimes. A ticker can be misattributed and a causal chain can be spurious. Treat every panel as a prompt to go and check, never as a conclusion. Nothing here is financial advice, and nobody involved in this site knows your circumstances.
Stories with no genuine market read-through get no panel at all — that is the intended behaviour, not a failure.
For publishers
We only read feeds you publish openly, we identify ourselves with a descriptive user-agent, and we fetch each feed at most once every 10 minutes. Links carry rel="nofollow" and open on your site, not ours.
If you would like your feed added, or removed, email sources@thebidside.com. Removal requests are honoured without argument and without asking why.
Privacy
There is no advertising, no analytics and no tracking on this site. No account, no newsletter, nothing to sign up for.
The only thing stored in your browser is whether you chose the light or dark theme. It never leaves your device.
Outbound links are stripped of campaign parameters before they are shown, so we are not passing tracking tags along either.
Corrections
The Bid Side does not write headlines — it repeats them. If a headline here is wrong, it is wrong at the source, and the publisher is the place to raise it. If a story is mis-sectioned, sitting under the wrong publisher, or a link is broken, that one is ours: email fix@thebidside.com.