diff --git a/config/config.json b/config/config.json
index 2a606018..4752caad 100644
--- a/config/config.json
+++ b/config/config.json
@@ -30,7 +30,8 @@
             "weather": 15,
             "stocks": 45,
             "hourly_forecast": 15,
-            "daily_forecast": 15
+            "daily_forecast": 15,
+            "news": 30
         }
     },
     "clock": {
@@ -49,5 +50,12 @@
             "ASTS", "SCHD", "INTC", "NVDA", "T", "VOO", "SPYG", "SMCI"
         ],
         "display_format": "{symbol}: ${price} ({change}%)"
+    },
+    "news": {
+        "enabled": true,
+        "update_interval": 300,
+        "scroll_speed": 1,
+        "scroll_delay": 0.05,
+        "max_headlines_per_symbol": 1
     }
 } 
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diff --git a/integrate_news_ticker.py b/integrate_news_ticker.py
new file mode 100644
index 00000000..88788b22
--- /dev/null
+++ b/integrate_news_ticker.py
@@ -0,0 +1,51 @@
+#!/usr/bin/env python3
+import time
+import sys
+import os
+from src.config_manager import ConfigManager
+from src.display_manager import DisplayManager
+from src.news_manager import NewsManager
+from src.stock_manager import StockManager
+
+def main():
+    """Integrate news ticker with the existing display system."""
+    try:
+        # Load configuration
+        config_manager = ConfigManager()
+        config = config_manager.config
+        
+        # Initialize display manager
+        display_manager = DisplayManager(config.get('display', {}))
+        
+        # Initialize stock manager
+        stock_manager = StockManager(config, display_manager)
+        
+        # Initialize news manager
+        news_manager = NewsManager(config, display_manager)
+        
+        print("News ticker integration test started. Press Ctrl+C to exit.")
+        print("Displaying stock data and news headlines...")
+        
+        # Display stock data and news headlines in a loop
+        while True:
+            # Display stock data
+            stock_manager.display_stocks()
+            
+            # Display news headlines for a limited time (30 seconds)
+            start_time = time.time()
+            while time.time() - start_time < 30:
+                news_manager.display_news()
+            
+    except KeyboardInterrupt:
+        print("\nTest interrupted by user.")
+    except Exception as e:
+        print(f"Error: {e}")
+    finally:
+        # Clean up
+        if 'display_manager' in locals():
+            display_manager.clear()
+            display_manager.update_display()
+            display_manager.cleanup()
+
+if __name__ == "__main__":
+    main() 
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diff --git a/src/news_manager.py b/src/news_manager.py
new file mode 100644
index 00000000..d0f109c5
--- /dev/null
+++ b/src/news_manager.py
@@ -0,0 +1,174 @@
+import time
+import logging
+import requests
+import json
+import random
+from typing import Dict, Any, List, Tuple
+from datetime import datetime
+import os
+import urllib.parse
+import re
+from src.config_manager import ConfigManager
+
+# Configure logging
+logging.basicConfig(level=logging.INFO)
+logger = logging.getLogger(__name__)
+
+class NewsManager:
+    def __init__(self, config: Dict[str, Any], display_manager):
+        self.config = config
+        self.config_manager = ConfigManager()
+        self.display_manager = display_manager
+        self.stocks_config = config.get('stocks', {})
+        self.news_config = config.get('news', {})
+        self.last_update = 0
+        self.news_data = {}
+        self.current_news_index = 0
+        self.scroll_position = 0
+        self.scroll_speed = self.news_config.get('scroll_speed', 1)  # Pixels to move per frame
+        self.scroll_delay = self.news_config.get('scroll_delay', 0.05)  # Delay between scroll updates
+        self.headers = {
+            'User-Agent': 'Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 10.0; Win64; x64) AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/91.0.4472.124 Safari/537.36'
+        }
+        # Initialize with first update
+        self.update_news_data()
+        
+    def _fetch_news_for_symbol(self, symbol: str) -> List[Dict[str, Any]]:
+        """Fetch news headlines for a stock symbol."""
+        try:
+            # Using Yahoo Finance API to get news
+            encoded_symbol = urllib.parse.quote(symbol)
+            url = f"https://query1.finance.yahoo.com/v1/finance/search?q={encoded_symbol}&lang=en-US&region=US&quotesCount=0&newsCount={self.news_config.get('max_headlines_per_symbol', 5)}"
+            
+            response = requests.get(url, headers=self.headers, timeout=5)
+            if response.status_code != 200:
+                logger.error(f"Failed to fetch news for {symbol}: HTTP {response.status_code}")
+                return []
+                
+            data = response.json()
+            news_items = data.get('news', [])
+            
+            # Process and format news items
+            formatted_news = []
+            for item in news_items:
+                formatted_news.append({
+                    "title": item.get('title', ''),
+                    "publisher": item.get('publisher', ''),
+                    "link": item.get('link', ''),
+                    "published": item.get('providerPublishTime', 0)
+                })
+                
+            logger.info(f"Fetched {len(formatted_news)} news items for {symbol}")
+            return formatted_news
+            
+        except requests.exceptions.RequestException as e:
+            logger.error(f"Network error fetching news for {symbol}: {e}")
+            return []
+        except (ValueError, IndexError, KeyError) as e:
+            logger.error(f"Error parsing news data for {symbol}: {e}")
+            return []
+        except Exception as e:
+            logger.error(f"Unexpected error fetching news for {symbol}: {e}")
+            return []
+            
+    def update_news_data(self):
+        """Update news data for all configured stock symbols."""
+        current_time = time.time()
+        update_interval = self.news_config.get('update_interval', 300)  # Default to 5 minutes
+        
+        # If not enough time has passed, keep using existing data
+        if current_time - self.last_update < update_interval:
+            return
+            
+        # Get symbols from config
+        symbols = self.stocks_config.get('symbols', [])
+        if not symbols:
+            logger.warning("No stock symbols configured for news")
+            return
+            
+        # Create temporary storage for new data
+        new_data = {}
+        success = False
+        
+        for symbol in symbols:
+            # Add a small delay between requests to avoid rate limiting
+            time.sleep(random.uniform(0.1, 0.3))
+            news_items = self._fetch_news_for_symbol(symbol)
+            if news_items:
+                new_data[symbol] = news_items
+                success = True
+                
+        if success:
+            # Only update the displayed data when we have new data
+            self.news_data = new_data
+            self.last_update = current_time
+            self.current_news_index = 0
+            self.scroll_position = 0
+            logger.info(f"Updated news data for {len(new_data)} symbols")
+        else:
+            logger.error("Failed to fetch news for any configured stocks")
+            
+    def display_news(self):
+        """Display news headlines by scrolling them across the screen."""
+        if not self.news_config.get('enabled', False):
+            return
+            
+        # Start update in background if needed
+        if time.time() - self.last_update >= self.news_config.get('update_interval', 300):
+            self.update_news_data()
+            
+        if not self.news_data:
+            logger.warning("No news data available to display")
+            return
+            
+        # Get all news items from all symbols
+        all_news = []
+        for symbol, news_items in self.news_data.items():
+            for item in news_items:
+                all_news.append({
+                    "symbol": symbol,
+                    "title": item["title"],
+                    "publisher": item["publisher"]
+                })
+                
+        if not all_news:
+            return
+            
+        # Get the current news item to display
+        current_news = all_news[self.current_news_index]
+        
+        # Format the news text
+        news_text = f"{current_news['symbol']}: {current_news['title']}"
+        
+        # Get text dimensions
+        bbox = self.display_manager.draw.textbbox((0, 0), news_text, font=self.display_manager.small_font)
+        text_width = bbox[2] - bbox[0]
+        
+        # Clear the display
+        self.display_manager.clear()
+        
+        # Draw the news text at the current scroll position
+        self.display_manager.draw_text(
+            news_text,
+            x=self.display_manager.matrix.width - self.scroll_position,
+            y=16,  # Center vertically
+            color=(255, 255, 255),  # White
+            small_font=True
+        )
+        
+        # Update the display
+        self.display_manager.update_display()
+        
+        # Update scroll position
+        self.scroll_position += self.scroll_speed
+        
+        # If we've scrolled past the end of the text, move to the next news item
+        if self.scroll_position > text_width + self.display_manager.matrix.width:
+            self.scroll_position = 0
+            self.current_news_index = (self.current_news_index + 1) % len(all_news)
+            
+        # Add a small delay to control scroll speed
+        time.sleep(self.scroll_delay)
+        
+        # Return True if we've displayed all news items
+        return self.current_news_index == 0 and self.scroll_position == 0 
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diff --git a/test_news_ticker.py b/test_news_ticker.py
new file mode 100644
index 00000000..c4d9f2dc
--- /dev/null
+++ b/test_news_ticker.py
@@ -0,0 +1,44 @@
+#!/usr/bin/env python3
+import time
+import sys
+import os
+from src.config_manager import ConfigManager
+from src.display_manager import DisplayManager
+from src.news_manager import NewsManager
+
+def main():
+    """Test the news ticker functionality."""
+    try:
+        # Load configuration
+        config_manager = ConfigManager()
+        config = config_manager.config
+        
+        # Initialize display manager
+        display_manager = DisplayManager(config.get('display', {}))
+        
+        # Initialize news manager
+        news_manager = NewsManager(config, display_manager)
+        
+        print("News ticker test started. Press Ctrl+C to exit.")
+        print("Displaying news headlines for configured stock symbols...")
+        
+        # Display news headlines for a limited time (30 seconds)
+        start_time = time.time()
+        while time.time() - start_time < 30:
+            news_manager.display_news()
+            
+        print("Test completed successfully.")
+        
+    except KeyboardInterrupt:
+        print("\nTest interrupted by user.")
+    except Exception as e:
+        print(f"Error: {e}")
+    finally:
+        # Clean up
+        if 'display_manager' in locals():
+            display_manager.clear()
+            display_manager.update_display()
+            display_manager.cleanup()
+
+if __name__ == "__main__":
+    main() 
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