WSJ, Dealbreaker, signed up for the Dealbook morning email, and then general news sources (e.g. fox, cnn)

"They are all former investment bankers that were laid off in the economic collapse that Nancy Pelosi caused. They have no marketable skills, but by God they work hard."
 

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....

Get busy living
 
McEnroe:
UFOinsider: Agreed, there are some pretty cool apps like Summly and Zite that can do this for you.
Nice, I haven't really looked at either of those so I'll check them out now.

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.

Get busy living
 

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.

 

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.

"Ambition and education is first and talent is second"- T.I.
 

We get a new "which news source" question every week.

"You stop being an asshole when it sucks to be you." -IlliniProgrammer "Your grammar made me wish I'd been aborted." -happypantsmcgee
 

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.

The one who does not fall, does not stand up
 

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.

Making money is art and working is art and good business is the best art - Andy Warhol
 
GoldenCinderblock:

daily show and facebook

Don't forget Mad Money!

[quote=Matrick][in reply to Tony Snark"]Why aren't you blogging for WSO and become the date doctor for WSO? There seems to be demand. [/quote] [quote=BatMasterson][in reply to Tony Snark's dating tip] Sensible advice.[/quote]
 

I have been getting some stuff via chain emails from Zero Hedge news that looks fake.

[quote=Matrick][in reply to Tony Snark"]Why aren't you blogging for WSO and become the date doctor for WSO? There seems to be demand. [/quote] [quote=BatMasterson][in reply to Tony Snark's dating tip] Sensible advice.[/quote]
 
  1. Wall Street Oasis
  2. Forbes
  3. The Economist
  4. Business Insider

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.

[quote=Matrick][in reply to Tony Snark"]Why aren't you blogging for WSO and become the date doctor for WSO? There seems to be demand. [/quote] [quote=BatMasterson][in reply to Tony Snark's dating tip] Sensible advice.[/quote]
 

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.

"After you work on Wall Street it’s a choice, would you rather work at McDonalds or on the sell-side? I would choose McDonalds over the sell-side.” - David Tepper
 

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!

Why get your own coffee when you can get an intern to do it for you?
 

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.

Fortes fortuna adiuvat.
 
soules9219:
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

 

bloomberg & CNBC > WSJ for sure

I don't accept sacrifices and I don't make them. ... If ever the pleasure of one has to be bought by the pain of the other, there better be no trade at all. A trade by which one gains and the other loses is a fraud.
 

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.

 

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.

"I must create a system or be enslaved by another man's." William Blake
 

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.

 
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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.

 
IBDaspirations:

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, 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.

 
IBDaspirations:

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.

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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