Intercontinental Exchange launches new tool with Reddit to use conversations as market signals

Watch on YouTube ↗  |  January 27, 2026 at 17:29  |  5:24  |  CNBC
Speakers
Chris Edmonds — President of Fixed Income and Data Services, Intercontinental Exchange

Summary

Chris Edmonds, Intercontinental Exchange president of fixed income and data services, discusses ICE's new partnership with Reddit to convert Reddit conversations into market signals for institutional investors. The tool applies AI and data science to Reddit's large conversation base and is available on ICE data platforms. Edmonds cites Japanese yen sentiment around Japan's snap election and municipal-bond climate risk as examples of how the data can be used.

  • ICE launches a tool with Reddit to turn conversations into market signals.
  • The service is aimed primarily at institutional capital markets.
  • ICE uses AI and data science to process high-volume alternative data.
  • Edmonds cites Japanese yen sentiment turning negative after a snap election.
  • He also cites climate-risk feedback for municipal bonds as a use case.
  • Reddit is described as highly active with hundreds of millions of weekly messages.
  • Edmonds expects deployment of such data in trading strategies to get easier over five years.
Ideas
Chris Edmonds President of Fixed Income and Data Services, Intercontinental Exchange 1:40
Japanese yen sentiment signal turned negative.
ICE's new Reddit sentiment tool began picking up Japanese yen conversations before Christmas, and after the January 19 snap election announcement the signal turned into negative sentiment, giving investors a monitorable bearish trend on the yen.
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This CNBC video, published January 27, 2026, features Chris Edmonds discussing FXY. 1 trade idea extracted by AI with direction and confidence scoring.

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