I would like to find an efficient way of extracting information from
news and press releases from the stock market.  Specifically, I am
looking for catalysts (key words).  Ameritrade has a news streamer
that shows up in a java format, but I'm curious as to the
possibilities of a program or site that gathers this information
already.  Would google be able to do this?

Thanks very much in advance,

Matt Jester

this is easy.  screen scrape a major web news site.  hash on words,
throwing out duplicates and noise.