diff --git a/tests/test_news_lookahead.py b/tests/test_news_lookahead.py
index 7651cff4c..2d7106415 100644
--- a/tests/test_news_lookahead.py
+++ b/tests/test_news_lookahead.py
@@ -213,3 +213,47 @@ def test_coverage_gap_future_window_is_unavailable():
     today = datetime.now(timezone.utc).date()
     out = coverage_gap([], str(today), str(today + timedelta(days=3)), "Feed", "items")
     assert out is not None and "past today" in out
+
+
+@pytest.mark.unit
+def test_out_of_window_articles_do_not_consume_the_article_budget(monkeypatch):
+    """The limit counts articles the run may see, not candidates fetched (#1356).
+
+    Out-of-window items were counted first, so they filled the budget, stopped
+    the remaining searches, and the in-window news was reported as absent.
+    """
+    stale = [{"title": f"OLD {i}", "publisher": "P", "link": "l",
+              "providerPublishTime": _epoch("2025-01-01")} for i in range(2)]
+    wanted = {"title": "IN WINDOW", "publisher": "P", "link": "l",
+              "providerPublishTime": _epoch("2025-05-08")}
+    pages = [stale, [wanted]]
+
+    class FakeSearch:
+        def __init__(self, *a, **k):
+            self.news = pages.pop(0) if pages else []
+
+    monkeypatch.setattr(ynews.yf, "Search", FakeSearch)
+    monkeypatch.setattr(ynews, "get_config", lambda: {
+        "global_news_lookback_days": 7, "global_news_article_limit": 2,
+        "global_news_queries": ["markets", "economy"],
+    })
+
+    out = ynews.get_global_news_yfinance("2025-05-09")
+
+    assert "IN WINDOW" in out
+    assert "OLD 0" not in out
+
+
+@pytest.mark.unit
+def test_the_article_limit_still_caps_what_is_returned(monkeypatch):
+    articles = [{"title": f"NEWS {i}", "publisher": "P", "link": "l",
+                 "providerPublishTime": _epoch("2025-05-08")} for i in range(5)]
+
+    class FakeSearch:
+        def __init__(self, *a, **k):
+            self.news = articles
+
+    monkeypatch.setattr(ynews.yf, "Search", FakeSearch)
+    out = ynews.get_global_news_yfinance("2025-05-09", look_back_days=7, limit=3)
+
+    assert out.count("### ") == 3
diff --git a/tradingagents/dataflows/yfinance_news.py b/tradingagents/dataflows/yfinance_news.py
index e330a7af2..033afcd8c 100644
--- a/tradingagents/dataflows/yfinance_news.py
+++ b/tradingagents/dataflows/yfinance_news.py
@@ -146,7 +146,11 @@ def get_global_news_yfinance(
         limit = config["global_news_article_limit"]
     search_queries = config["global_news_queries"]
 
-    all_news = []
+    curr_dt = datetime.strptime(curr_date, "%Y-%m-%d")
+    start_dt = curr_dt - relativedelta(days=look_back_days)
+    start_date = start_dt.strftime("%Y-%m-%d")
+
+    in_window_news = []
     seen_titles = set()
 
     try:
@@ -157,47 +161,33 @@ def get_global_news_yfinance(
                 enable_fuzzy_query=True,
             ))
 
-            if search.news:
-                for article in search.news:
-                    # Handle both flat and nested structures
-                    if "content" in article:
-                        data = _extract_article_data(article)
-                        title = data["title"]
-                    else:
-                        title = article.get("title", "")
+            for article in search.news or []:
+                # Window first: the limit counts what the run may read, so an
+                # out-of-window article must not spend the budget or cut the
+                # remaining searches short (#1356). Flat articles are filtered
+                # on the same rule, so none can leak future news (#1007).
+                data = _extract_article_data(article)
+                if not in_window(data["pub_date"], start_dt, curr_dt):
+                    continue
+                if data["title"] and data["title"] not in seen_titles:
+                    seen_titles.add(data["title"])
+                    in_window_news.append(data)
 
-                    # Deduplicate by title
-                    if title and title not in seen_titles:
-                        seen_titles.add(title)
-                        all_news.append(article)
-
-            if len(all_news) >= limit:
+            if len(in_window_news) >= limit:
                 break
 
-        # Calculate date range
-        curr_dt = datetime.strptime(curr_date, "%Y-%m-%d")
-        start_dt = curr_dt - relativedelta(days=look_back_days)
-        start_date = start_dt.strftime("%Y-%m-%d")
-
         news_str = ""
-        kept = 0
-        for article in all_news[:limit]:
-            # Extract uniformly (flat + nested) and apply the same look-ahead-safe
-            # window filter, so flat articles can't leak future news (#1007).
-            data = _extract_article_data(article)
-            if not in_window(data["pub_date"], start_dt, curr_dt):
-                continue
+        for data in in_window_news[:limit]:
             news_str += f"### {data['title']} (source: {data['publisher']})\n"
             if data["summary"]:
                 news_str += f"{data['summary']}\n"
             if data["link"]:
                 news_str += f"Link: {data['link']}\n"
             news_str += "\n"
-            kept += 1
 
-        # All candidates fell outside the window -> say so rather than return an
+        # Nothing fell inside the window -> say so rather than return an
         # empty-bodied report (#993).
-        if kept == 0:
+        if not news_str:
             # Results merge several fuzzy searches, so their timestamps prove no
             # continuous coverage; judge the window against the present only.
             gap = coverage_gap((), start_date, curr_date, "Yahoo Finance global news", "market news")