Favourite News or Business Website

[Fergal]

What is your favourite business, news or current affairs website?

Personally I like the website of the major national Irish TV channel http://www.rte.ie. I've signed up for their email news alerts and get the main business news stories emailed to me twice a day.

I also like http://www.irishtimes.com/ which is the site of an Irish national newspaper with a strong business focus.

[Nazreen]

For the latest news on current affairs, I still prefer reading the newspaper. Technology news is a different matter however, because the one's in the newspaper are usually a day or even a week old.

For the latest headlines on technology, I usually read these from CNET News (http://news.cnet.com/).

[silent_thunder]

For me the best business news is http://www.hinduonnet.com/ I had subscribed for the RSS

I also get the newsletters from www.rediff.com

for sports I like only arsenal so I get the newsletter from them arsenal.com:D

[ad14n994]

for local news in my country, Indonesia, i always visit detik.com, it updates news in seconds. This site also have the mobile version, so i'm able to know the new news in this hour in my mobile phone.

For the english site, i use news.google.com, it is quite complete and updated in a minutes, although google doesn't have the Indonesian version

[deepak_sharma]

Well my personal favourite website which i refer is www.ndtv.com. It gives you live update on each and every field like local news, business news, sports , entertainment and many other things. Apart from all these features which are their on many news websites the thing which i like most about it is views and analysis on different news by many experts. Even we can also put our views in front and these feedbacks are greatly appreciated by experts . I even once won a prize on the site when i put my comment on Indo US nuclear treaty....

[DEADMAN]

One of the famous and old news website of Nepal is www.NepalNews.com There are only few people who are unknown about this website. When anybody want news related to nepal to check the most recent and hot news happening at Nepal, this website has everything inside. Also, the website has the most hits everyday!

[Fergal]

Every one of those sites uses blue text for headlines. Do you think that's a coincidence?

[jigyasa]

I like thehindu website for news regarding my country India. It also has some great news about the happenings around the world. For technology, neowin is my first pick :)

[scifi]

For local news or business deals I always prefer using rediff.com & moneycontrol.com.
These are the two best sites with full & latest informations updated at very fast rate cycle.

[Nazreen]

To add to these news websites, you can get up to speed with market reports on what's going on with the economy with the following websites:


Bloomberg (http://www.bloomberg.com)
MarketWatch.com (http://www.marketwatch.com)
Reuters (http://www.reuters.com)


These websites provide frequent intraday updates that cover data releases and announcements.

[Kay]

I like Bloomberg and Marketwatch too. Reuters I'm not keen on. For looking at what the buzz is, I like http://newsvine.com. Their tagline is Get Smarter Here and the news they highlight is good quality on many different subjects which members can comment on and vote up or down. It's the thinking man's Digg but better.

[Fergal]

Thanks for the links.


...Their tagline is Get Smarter Here...

What a great line / slogan. Memorable, short and self explanatory.

Does anyone else find the orange text on the black background on the Bloomberg site (http://www.bloomberg.com/) hard on the eyes and difficult to read?

[Kay]

Thanks for the links.



What a great line / slogan. Memorable, short and self explanatory.

Does anyone else find the orange text on the black background on the Bloomberg site (http://www.bloomberg.com/) hard on the eyes and difficult to read?

It is good, isn't it. :)


Re the background, funny enough, I usually do find that with dark backgrounds but not theirs for some reason. My husband on the other hand dislikes it intensely because he finds it the same as you. I like it because it's different from the usual finance sites but I think it may indeed be tougher on some people visually than others.

[scifi]

http://www.buzzingstocks.com/in/index.pl
Friends I came upon an interesting site on stock market that has an application built within webpage Instant Technical Analysis, Charts & Related News of the stock you want to know all at one page for your ready reference too.
Although I will not say that their analysis is reliable but atleast you can get an idea of your stock....
It also tells you that whether you should hold the stock, sell it or buy it....

[Nazreen]

Does anyone else find the orange text on the black background on the Bloomberg site (http://www.bloomberg.com/) hard on the eyes and difficult to read?

It's actually okay for me reading the orange text against the black background. I would have problems reading dark-colored text against dark backgrounds and similarly, light-colored text against light backgrounds though.


http://www.buzzingstocks.com/in/index.pl
Friends I came upon an interesting site on stock market that has an application built within webpage Instant Technical Analysis, Charts & Related News of the stock you want to know all at one page for your ready reference too.
Although I will not say that their analysis is reliable but atleast you can get an idea of your stock....
It also tells you that whether you should hold the stock, sell it or buy it....

Thanks for sharing the link for buzzingstocks Scifi. I'd have to advise against following what their software will advise whether to buy or sell stocks though. It's still the people and the market's sentiments who are driving the financial markets. You should not just look at what the charting software tells you. Also, charts are just a part of technical analysis. There's also fundamental analysis that you need to consider.

[Kay]

Thanks for sharing the link for buzzingstocks Scifi. I'd have to advise against following what their software will advise whether to buy or sell stocks though. It's still the people and the market's sentiments who are driving the financial markets. You should not just look at what the charting software tells you. Also, charts are just a part of technical analysis. There's also fundamental analysis that you need to consider.

I agree with Nazreen. I've never been much of a chart fan myself since it's all based on what's happened historically with a company. I prefer to look at the fundamentals more but will cast an eye over the support, resistance etc. The big problem I see with charts is they don't factor in news, good or bad, nor world events like the current economic climate. For example if your chart said a stock was about to break resistance and showed a sudden volume jump, you might jump in and buy it, thinking this was its big moment.

However if you did that without looking at the news, you might have missed them announcing the loss of a huge contract and realized it was spiking only because so many were selling, trying to get out. That's the difference between tech analysis and fundamental analysis.

Some people only use charts, some go for fundamentals, some do a bit of both. I'm no expert, but I'd give the fundamentals more weight now and throw the charts out the window mostly because this is .... uncharted territory. :)

I've never heard of that site, I must admit. I don't know if it's subscription based but you can get practically all that information free online if you know where to look.

If you're interested in learning more about charts and how to read them and the strengths and weaknesses of different types of stock analysis, there's the ChartSchool (http://stockcharts.com/school/doku.php?id=chart_school) at StockCharts.com.

It's a well known, respected site that's been around for years. So is barchart.com (http://www.barchart.com). Input the stock symbol and it'll give you both technicals and fundamentals as well as signals.

Nothing but nothing though can beat using your common sense. To earn, you need to learn. Know what you're looking at and you won't need to rely on what anyone else says. :)

[scifi]

Thank You Both Nazreen & Kay!!
For giving me more insight into the analysis & making me familiar with the Fundamental analysis of the stocks.
It's true that fundamental analysis is very important since ignoring announcements, news, market & people sentiments can be a great mistake & in that case technical analysis will also be of no good.

But I have a question then,why Books of Financial Management deals with the different types of financial ratios like equity -debt ratio,PE ratio, EPS etc. & other technical things.I think they should also focus on this Fundamental analysis...
I would definitely like to learn more about it. Can you give me some links from where I can know more about it. But again Would it be better to rely completely on fundamental analysis ??????

[Nazreen]

Whether you're a short-term investor (scalper), intermediate-term investor, or a longer-term investor, I think that an investor shouldn't be a purist - pure technical and pure fundamental. I think a compromise between the two would be better.

Short-term investors are usually in there for a short time and mostly rely on technical analysis. They normally look for reversal and continuation patterns that will indicate that the trend will be reversing or continuing. I think that they should also be aware of the fundamentals to know the overall direction of the market.

Longer-term investors, however, depend more on the fundamentals. The problem with fundamentals, however, is that it's difficult to quantify them so they still need technical analysis to know when is the best time to enter or exit a trade.

I tried searching for websites before but most only give an introduction on Fundamental and Technical Analysis. I got tired of reading the same thing over and over again, so I borrowed books in the public library instead.

[Big_0n3]

for news i prefer www.protv.ro and for business http://www.tmctv.ro/

[Kay]

Thank You Both Nazreen & Kay!!

But I have a question then,why Books of Financial Management deals with the different types of financial ratios like equity -debt ratio,PE ratio, EPS etc. & other technical things.I think they should also focus on this Fundamental analysis...

I would definitely like to learn more about it. Can you give me some links from where I can know more about it. But again Would it be better to rely completely on fundamental analysis ??????

Usually I'd say a blend of both but the way things are now, I think fundamentals are much more important in the current economic climate. As I mentioned:


Some people only use charts, some go for fundamentals, some do a bit of both. I'm no expert, but I'd give the fundamentals more weight now and throw the charts out the window mostly because this is .... uncharted territory. :)

Those things in blue would come under fundamental in my book, scifi because they're a financial analysis of figures obtained from company earnings reports, etc. rather than technical analysis. Technical analysis is based purely on what the stock's share price has done in the past and the patterns created from that movement.

For a more detailed explanation of what does come under fundamentals, see this excellent explanation What is Fundamental Analysis (http://stockcharts.com/school/doku.php?id=chart_school:overview:fundamental_anal ysis). It has a list. What is Technical Analysis (http://stockcharts.com/school/doku.php?id=chart_school:overview:technical_analys is) is worth reading too once you've got the fundamental one in your mind. :) Hope that helps clarify it a bit more.

[Nazreen]

Thanks for the link on StockCharts Kay especially on the Technical Analysis part. The site also has a page describing most of the Technical Indicators and even though the site is focused on Stock Investing, it will still be applicable in Forex.

The StockCharts site also has free charts but only on Stocks. Here are other sites that offers free charts that also includes Forex.


Yahoo! Finance (http://www.finance.yahoo.com)
CNBC (http://www.cnbc.com)
Bigcharts (http://www.bigcharts.com)


Aside from charts, Yahoo! Finance and CNBC also has economic news and a variety of information on stocks and markets. Yahoo! Finance even has a forum that is full of both rumors and facts about the stock market.