Forex News would not show you the direction of up or down. But to show you
a) whether the trading will be active, and not active.
b) active on it's own currency pair.
For e.g. If it is GBP news, GBP currency pair active.
There are two situations that forex trades at the same
price level (idle) for quite sometime.
If you feel the trend is getting into sideway, either at M1, M5, M15, M30 sideway before the news is released, there is a potential breakout. However, you won't know which exactly the time that it would burst. That's why it's hard to trade with the following examples:
a) Too many news is going to be announced today.