What's going on with the WSJ?
As a student, one of the pieces of advice almost everyone would give is to read the WSJ as often as possible.
So okay, I decided to take their advice, but most of the frontpage WSJ is garbage. One of the biggest deals of the year - Nippon Steel acquiring US steel - got 90 comments, meanwhile Trump making a post on Truth Social would get 3k or 4k comments. Most of their front page stuff has nothing to do with business or finance and is just US politics or commentary on the actions of Pres. Biden as well as the former president (or advertising Nikki Haley). Obviously on certain days there is good content, or you can go look in some dark corner of WSJ for some economic/financial analysis which is gonna get a few thousand views and 3 comments, but why can't the administrators actually post business/finance content on the front page. And why do people subscribe if they only care about Biden's latest gaffe or Trump's rants on truth social?
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Economy, Tech, and Finance are the sections you should probably be focusing on. I'll glance at the front page but usually dont read through political stuff
Agreed. Bloomberg is much better that way
Reuters too.
The political stuff gets more clicks.
Most people don’t read the WSJ for actual important business news. In the end it’s mostly entertainment. Just skip the front page and find the articles that help you understand what you want to learn.
Lil bro saw “Wall Street” in the name and thought it was going to be about which M&A advisor just got passed on the league tables or advised on a $500m Midwest industrials transaction.
It’s a fucking news network lol. But on a serious note I find the content they post most interesting and use it as entertainment when I’m bored at work (maybe it’s just the clean UX compared to other “financial” networks like BBG or FT).
Obviously the big political/national news is going to get a lot more attention that niche finance announcements.
BBG?
Okay but how is Trump calling Nikki Haley "bird brain" national news?
WSJ is one part of the overall news diet you should be consuming as a finance professional, not the be-all, end-all. FT is very good as is Bloomberg
After that, it's dependent on your actual work as to what specialized sources of news flow you should consume
Read the FT due diligence newsletter everyday and you should be up to date with most major M&A news. I also like to put on The Open from Bloomberg which are uploaded to youtube in the background everday and it lets me absorb whats going on in the markets
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