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Financial blogs & RSS feeds, a free resource all S&T interns should be usingIt's been a while since I've checked this site, and I see the value-added/signal-to-noise continues to trend towards zero, drowning in a cesspit of inane topics ("what should I wear to an interview", "how many hours does an M&A mule work", "how much $$$ can I make", "which university is better?").
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Financial blogs have grown massively in the past few years, and have proven to be an excellent resource for up-to-date market events and topics of discussion. The best thing about it? It's free, and often written by informed commentators much smarter than your average Bloomberg reporter monkey.
Tapping these resources is very simple to do. You can just bookmark in a browser, but a much more efficient way would be to use MS Outlook's in-built RSS Reader (or download one of many RSS-reader add-ons for various internet browsers) to receive all new feeds into one place. Create a text file like the one below (good examples to get you started) and save as a .opml file. Go into Outlook RSS Feeds, right-click and import the opml file.
And yes, wear a ****ing tie to an interview.
<opml version="1.1"><head><title>Feeds </title></head>
<body>
<outline text="A Fistful Of Euros" xmlUrl="http://fistfulofeuros.net/category/afoe/feed/" type="rss"/>
<outline text="Abnormal Returns Now" xmlUrl="http://abnormalreturns.com/links.rss" type="rss"/>
<outline text="Clusterstock" xmlUrl="http://feeds.feedburner.com/clusterstock?format=xml" type="rss"/>
<outline text="Dealbreaker" xmlUrl="http://feeds.feedburner.com/dealbreaker" type="rss"/>
<outline text="Deus Ex Macchiato" xmlUrl="http://blog.rivast.com/?feed=rss2" type="rss"/>
<outline text="Felix Salmon" xmlUrl="http://blogs.reuters.com/felix-salmon/feed/" type="rss"/>
<outline text="FT Alphaville" xmlUrl="http://ftalphaville.ft.com/blog/feed/" type="rss"/>
<outline text="Kleinman" xmlUrl="http://blogs.news.sky.com/rss/kleinman.xml" type="rss"/>
<outline text="MoneyWeek" xmlUrl="http://www.moneyweek.com/rss-all.xml" type="rss"/>
<outline text="naked capitalism" xmlUrl="http://www.nakedcapitalism.com/feed" type="rss"/>
<outline text="Paul Kedrosky's Infectious Greed" xmlUrl="http://feeds.feedburner.com/InfectiousGreed" type="rss"/>
<outline text="The Big Picture" xmlUrl="http://www.ritholtz.com/blog/feed/" type="rss"/>
<outline text="WSJ.com: MarketBeat" xmlUrl="http://feeds2.feedburner.com/wsj/marketbeat/feed" type="rss"/>
<outline text="zero hedge" xmlUrl="http://feeds.feedburner.com/zerohedge/feed?q=rss.xml" type="rss"/>
<outline text="FT Money supply blog on CBs" xmlUrl="http://blogs.ft.com/money-supply/feed/" type="rss"/>
<outline text="Credit Writedowns" xmlUrl="http://feeds.creditwritedowns.com/creditwritedowns" type="rss"/>
<outline text="FT Beyond Brics" xmlUrl="http://feeds2.feedburner.com/ft/beyond-brics" type="rss"/>
<outline text="FT EM" xmlUrl="http://www.ft.com/rss/markets/emerging" type="rss"/>
<outline text="Baseline Scenario" xmlUrl="http://feeds.feedburner.com/BaselineScenario" type="rss"/>
<outline text="Calculated Risk" xmlUrl="http://feeds.feedburner.com/CalculatedRisk" type="rss"/>
<outline text="China Financial Markets" xmlUrl="http://mpettis.com/feed/" type="rss"/>
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Re: Financial blogs & RSS feeds, a free resource all S&T interns should be usingIf you have a smartphone search for any rss reader app. I can't be very detailed here since I don't know what phone you are using. But the main gist of it would be to follow any instructions on the app/website of the app. Then at some point you would need to enter the url's for your RSS feeds, and those would be the url's in the first post, http://fistfulofeuros.net/category/afoe/feed/ , for example.(Original post by Maggieffc)
Could be handy if I can figure out how do use it on my phone.
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Re: Financial blogs & RSS feeds, a free resource all S&T interns should be usingThanks for the help - I'm an Android 2.3er on a Desire HD. I just downloaded something called gReader and I think I'm getting there.(Original post by sam1990)
If you have a smartphone search for any rss reader app. I can't be very detailed here since I don't know what phone you are using. But the main gist of it would be to follow any instructions on the app/website of the app. Then at some point you would need to enter the url's for your RSS feeds, and those would be the url's in the first post, http://fistfulofeuros.net/category/afoe/feed/ , for example.
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Re: Financial blogs & RSS feeds, a free resource all S&T interns should be usingCool - I use greader on my Galaxy S. You can set up the RSS feeds using google reader and your google account, http://www.google.com/reader, then you just sync greader on your phone with your account (saves you setting it up on the phone). greader gives you alerts too, but with a lot of feeds the alerts can be quite frequent!(Original post by Maggieffc)
Thanks for the help - I'm an Android 2.3er on a Desire HD. I just downloaded something called gReader and I think I'm getting there. -
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Re: Financial blogs & RSS feeds, a free resource all S&T interns should be usingthe one that comes to mind is macro man (www.macro-man.blogspot.com)...i can't think of anything better (buttonwood from the economist is okay-ish) but maybe subscribing to WSJ's economics page. another good idea is to open an account with Oanda as you get access to a minor amount of research (maybe UBS so its probablly worthless) and, more importantly, some pretty good news feeds. I remember 4Cast being pretty good. i would suggest though that fx often isn't easy and takes a long time (1y+) to get your bearings.
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Re: Financial blogs & RSS feeds, a free resource all S&T interns should be usingOK, Thanks for your help!(Original post by crcr)
the one that comes to mind is macro man (www.macro-man.blogspot.com)...i can't think of anything better (buttonwood from the economist is okay-ish) but maybe subscribing to WSJ's economics page. another good idea is to open an account with Oanda as you get access to a minor amount of research (maybe UBS so its probablly worthless) and, more importantly, some pretty good news feeds. I remember 4Cast being pretty good. i would suggest though that fx often isn't easy and takes a long time (1y+) to get your bearings. -
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Re: Financial blogs & RSS feeds, a free resource all S&T interns should be usingif youre an a-level level person you shouldnt really be specialising(Original post by CityTrader)
Does anyone have a good FX/FX strategy Feed? -
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Re: Financial blogs & RSS feeds, a free resource all S&T interns should be usingLol! I'm not but I find FX interesting.(Original post by Teenage Pirate)
if youre an a-level level person you shouldnt really be specialising -
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Re: Financial blogs & RSS feeds, a free resource all S&T interns should be usingDealbreaker is, imo, the best one out there. Some other good ones are Deal Book and, if your into equities, Empirical Finance llc, Bronte Capital, Citron Research, Distressed Debt Investing, Barel Karsan and Frankly Speaking. And i'll shamelessly promote my own: Valuhunteruk
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