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Dealbreaker. They don't block it at my place !
WSJ, Dealbreaker, signed up for the Dealbook morning email, and then general news sources (e.g. fox, cnn)
Aggregated news from all over the place.
The Daily Beast Huffington Post NYTimes Bloomberg Dealbook Economist Poets & Quants / DB / WSO / M&I WSJ Barron's Aggregated news from all over the place
Don't limit yourself to just finance publications, it's important to understand the larger environment in which the markets operate....
http://techcrunch.com/
UFOinsider: Agreed, there are some pretty cool apps like Summly and Zite that can do this for you.
Also: CFR publications. They tend to take a long term macro view of the world, and can give you a really good idea of the general direction things are moving. Not so much useful for an individual stock, but very useful for understanding the context that something happens in, especially overseas.
Also, RealClearMarkets (spinoff of RealClearPolitics) is a great "aggregate source"
http://www.realclearmarkets.com/?state=nwa
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I use the news aggregators Drudge Report and realclearpolitics.com, which has spinoffs realclearmarkets, science, religion, world, history, policy, energy, defense, and sports (though I never read the sports). I also read mortgagemarketguide.com, and ESPN.
News Source (Originally Posted: 06/27/2011)
Where do you guys get your news from? Of course WSJ is the big one but what other sources? CNN? Fox? Businessinsider? MSNBC? CNBC?
I am a big WSJ and Business Insider fan.. I guess i am looking see what people go to aside from WSJ and maybe find a source I missed. What can I say, I like to stay informed.
The Economist, New York Times, various other blogs
Drudge
We get a new "which news source" question every week.
Traditional Sources: NY Times, Economist, Financial Times, Wall Street Journal
Alternative Sources: Alternet.org, HuffPo, Drudge, Rolling Stone (Taibbi)
No worries, after scanning a search for news, I realized it was kind of a bitch trying to find a decent thread with everything that pops up for "news" and "news source", but here's one for finance/business:
http://www.wallstreetoasis.com/forums/whats-the-best-businessfinance-ne…
Well if you really want to know whats going I wouldnt go to any of those sites.
I will give this site up, Zerohedge.com great place to get news. I have a bloomberg terminal so there are like 10k news articles a day so I use that quite often.
I do have one other "economic site" that i use often and it flys under the radar which is why i wont list it here. The guy who started it was a venture capitalist etc and he is phenomenal. If you knew me I dont use those words lightly about anything.
Every site has a slight to it, you try to find the most objective. Economist is a good read but heavily socialist. Most of all those major sites are crap fluff. Make your own news.
Economist and Bloomberg are my primary sources for news. Reason can be good at times and there are a couple smaller ones that provide more "niche news".
I try to follow individual writers more than strictly papers. Ryan Avent, Tyler Cowen, Veronique de Rugy, Matt Taibbi, and Thomas Sowell are all solid.
Dealbook at NY Times is good.
How do you get your news? (Originally Posted: 06/18/2014)
How do you keep up to date with the what's what in the markets? I've just been using Bloomberg Quickview, which I generally browse for 30 mins or so a day. I also browse a couple of blogs periodically, but I'm wondering if this is leaving any holes in my knowledge. I'm personally looking at this from a commercial banking point of view, but it would be interesting to see how everyone keeps up to date.
Just The Economist.
Ransquawk, which is probably overkill for most people. If I had to pay for it, I would probably just go with financial juice and set up a twitter account to text me messages from the breaking news feed.
Institutional Investor. Great content.
Seriously? You read Institutional Investor and you work in Venture Capital?
StockTwits and I use an RSS Feed to get Zero Hedge, Seeking Alpha etc...
daily show and facebook
Don't forget Mad Money!
ZeroHedge, Dealbook.
I have been getting some stuff via chain emails from Zero Hedge news that looks fake.
To name a few.
If I want to know what is happening at individual companies I go directly to sec.gov.
I keep the really good sources to myself.
TM3/Bond Buyer
FT, Bloomberg, The economist
Where do you get your news? (Originally Posted: 02/07/2011)
Curious to see where you guys go for news related to LBOs. I haven't found anything better than WSJ's PE blog (http://blogs.wsj.com/privateequity/?mod=WSJ_topnav_markets) and following the Deal's section. I know there is LBO Wire, but that is overkill for my purposes and does not warrant the $1,395/yr subscription.
For me, there's nothing better than NYT Deal Book. Quick, easy and to the point.
Also read WSJ, but that's about it.
Financial Times and Deal Book.
Deal Book, as well as free e-mail subscriptions: peHub Wire, and PitchBook News.
peHub Wire was a new find for me - thanks for the tip.
Also just saw that there is buyoutnews.com through reuters, but similar to LBO Wire it is pricey.
I do deals, so I make my own news.
Reuters.
Huffington Post WSJ CNBC Business Insider
Where do the big dogs get their news (Originally Posted: 11/27/2012)
Hey WSJ,
I'm not sure if this is the sub-forum to be posting this question but what the hell. I am curious as to what major publications or directories investment bankers read on a daily basis. Where do they do their research? Also, what reading material would you suggest for a new wanna be investor.
Thanks.
You answered your own question subconsciously in the second word of your post.
lol
Sorry, where would I go to ask this stupid question then.
Your second word was WSJ. Wall Street Journal...
WSJ bro. I'm also a big fan of The Economist for more worldly news.
Big Dogs additionally use services you have to pay for such as Debtwire, Merger Market, Capital Structure, Euroweek and others which are focused in the Big Dog's respective area of expertise.
I thought they just followed Tim Sykes on twitter?
Wall Street Journal New York Times Financial Times Barron's Economist Bloomberg Brazzers
News Sections to Read (Originally Posted: 07/14/2015)
Hi all,
I've been trying to triage the news I read everyday. I have a subscription to FT online and a print subscription to The Economist. While I actually enjoy reading the news, I do not have all the time in the world between my internship and other life matters.
I dedicate a minimum of an hour to reading the news each day, but I don't know which sections to focus on. I'm aiming to enter Capital Markets, any suggestions? (I've been sticking to the Finance and Economics, The world this week, and Briefing for The Economist and Capital Markets, Equities, Lex for FT)
P.S. Yes I know I should get the WSJ, but I'm a poor college student who has to use their earnings for school expenses...I get the FT for free from my school and The Economist was a gift from my fam.
I did not think that I would see too many Huffington Post readers on this site.
For market news, I really like Seeking Alpha's Wall Street Breakfast and MarketSnacks.
I like FT Alphaville
read it all for a bit and then see what piques your interest. also if you're in the US (maybe not because both of those pubs are UK), your school likely has a WSJ subscription or a discount through something like JourneyEd. that was the case when I was in school, but I don't know if that's still true today.
Yeah hopefully when my internship ends, I can figure out, which sections are the best for me.
I am in the US, I'll look into the WSJ subscription. I remember hearing about a discount from one of my profs. I figured having these two subscriptions, but if it makes the diff I'll make the investment. Many thanks!
Installed WSJ and FT extensions on Google Chrome for latest or breaking articles.
Subscribed to FT, CFA Institute Brief, and Quartz email newsletters.
Check compiled news on the Bloomberg terminal for specific topics.
Check Zero Hedge and Seeking Alpha occasionally.
Used to be subscribed to Bloomberg Businessweek+ on iOS.
Go To places for market news? (Originally Posted: 01/08/2013)
Hey Monkey's,
Quick question what sources do you guys use to get market news?
Preferably one's that are free
I know wall street journal is great and all that but I would prefer not to have to pay for the fee.
Thanks
I think Bloomberg is pretty good
I too enjoy Bloomberg...NYT's Dealbook isn't bad either.
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Bloomberg is good, I check CNBC a lot as well.
bloomberg & CNBC > WSJ for sure
if you google the WSJ news article you can find a free link. Other than that for free you really have ot piece things together: bloomberg, cnbc, reuters etc.
Another good one is to follow various different twitter accounts, and then yo usort of geta live news stream. I dont do this but a guy at work does and apparently its quite good.
Seekingalpha, Marketwatch and marketsnacks has a great end of the day review. I like how seekingalpha sends you emails on breaking news on the stocks you have in the watch list. Their wall street breakfast also is a must read.
Signing up for seekingalpha a while back was one of the best things I did to keep on top of my portfolio. You list which stocks you own and it emails you the news stories as soon as they happen for each company.
Bloomberg SeekingAlpha MarketWatch CNBC
How do you get your news (off the workplace) (Originally Posted: 12/19/2010)
I wonder how you get your news if you are not getting them on the workplace. Apart from reading newspapers or magazines like economist, I wonder whether you use RSS feeds a lot and if yes, the main question which aggregator do you use?
I personally don't like any aggregator that allows you to browse a blog specifically.
I liked microsoft live, because you could add infinite tabs, under each tab you could add as many feeds as prefereed and display up to 10 recent entires from the feed.
The good thing about it was that you could sort by topic in the tabs, which I usually had sorted like this:
news international relations and politics
economics ressources (blogs, magazines, etc.)
pop buzz (latest gossip, etc.)
Using live you could basically screen the entire news within 15 minutes or just print out the headlines in PDF format and go over it on the way to work.
Or do you prefer email newsservices, or stick to a single paper.
I would be especially thankful ifanyone knew a site that works like the old live site, which is basically the mymsn site without tab restricitions (to 5 tabs I think, which is too little)
Even more focused, anyone know where to go to get non political, world events and business news that you can listen to on an app? NPR is way too liberal for me, same with umano. I listen to iheartradio stations and pick up decent braodcasts, but in the morning I just want updates on what's going on in general world, USA and then business... No BS articles about global warming (right or left), politics (right or left), just straight up news and information.
What I've found is that news isn't so much biased left/right in how it's presented but in WHAT is presented. One could cover, say, the Fast and Furious scandal in a non-partisan, information-only type manner, or one could not cover the scandal at all by judging that it's not a scandal at all and therefore not worthy of news coverage. It's nearly impossible to divorce news from partisan politics because an individual or a collective organization's ideological bent will come out in what news it chooses to cover.
With that said, I listen to the John Batchelor podcast. He covers some domestic news but a lot of international news (Russia, Venezuela, China, Iran, Israel, etc.) in a much deeper analytical way than any other news source I've found. I would say the analysis is closer to that of how the CIA might analyze international events. His program is center-right, but it is radically so--a true moderate right review of the globe's critical events. And he takes no phone calls and interviews myriad guests. Other topics he covers in varying degrees is history, science/technology, and space.
I use Google Reader (blogs, news, websites, etc) and a couple of Google Alerts and news applications set up with my blackberry.
Tweet Deck.
Feed Demon.
Have about 20+ Finance and Econ blogs, coupled with a few generic news sites (BBC, CNN, Toronto Star etc).
I also use the Bloomberg app on my iPhone.
TWITTER.
Seriously. Any worthy news source tweets. You choose the articles you want to read. You can get a diverse array of sources.
News Sources? (Originally Posted: 06/01/2014)
I'm interning in S&T this summer. Which news sources and what specific pages do you guys go to when you are making your morning commute to work?
I'm subscribed to WSJ of course and read the What's News page in particular but I recently heard that financial times is better and more used.
FT on its own will cut it
FT, I think you can get 30 articles a month for free if you don't want to pay membership. Also, bloomberg has a pretty good app, and is 100% free.
Straight to my inbox: barchart morning call, wall street breakfast, dan primack's term sheet, dealbreaker opening bell, pitchbook pe & vc news, quartz daily brief, and the daily shot
On the web: dealbook, sober look, abnormal returns, deal pipeline, market folly, re/code, techcrunch, bloomberg, and moneybeat
Also sign up for dailydirtnap of course if you got some spare money
FT, bloomberg, and the economist (not really relevant for pressing market news, but probably the best source to get an international perspective of various political, economic, and business developments. Also many people on the floor, especially on macro desks, read the economist). IMO the WSJ is shit and a complete waste of your money. Honestly I think you get better news and insight from bloomberg (which is free) than the WSJ.
Now that I think about it, you'll prob have access to broker reports and other more "exclusive" mkt research -directly related to what your desk does- coming into your inbox every morning. Read that.
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