You all have a choice. Trade part time, invest etc or run a business based on trading. The Business of trading is based on information. If you trade indexes then this type of news is less important. If you trade commodities or single stocks, news and information is very important.
https://www.investing.com/news/most-popular-news and real time futures https://www.investing.com/indices/indices-futures
There is no such thing. People in the know move the market long before any news is released. But the move may not be efficient. There will be after shocks days weeks down the road but your winning or losing depends on how well you read others emotions.
I generally rely on yahoo finance news and investing.com news. Other excellent source of news is fool.com.
Even the indexes recently were largely moved by the progress of (or the lack of it in) the US-China trade talks. The main stream media are too slow for this type of news. Twitter is much faster but is hard to use.
The software I suggested allows you to filter for what you want to see and the delay is very small. Honestly, it is awesome.
Check out http://www.newsware.com/our-data-sources/ I used them a few years ago, loved the customizability of the software and they have pretty much any news source you desire. Pricing was very reasonable unless you get into the full DJ newsfeed. Even then it cost less than a subscription directly with DJ and DJ directly only offers a web app which is slower and sometimes hangs. NewsEdge in comparison sounds very expensive. 309/m just for the few inexpensive sources they listed? For less than that price you can get a full dow jones global feed that includes all equities, fixed income, commodities, index, econ, law wires.
If you con't care about real time price data because you get real time data somewhere else, can you subscribe to the USD 99 version (XENITH FOREX) and get access to individual stock news similar to what Eikon offers?