Best places to keep up with global financial matters?

[Alan Medic]

Can anyone advise me please?

Websites, tv, radio, twitter, print. Anything else? Young Medic needs to learn what's happening in the world or what might happen.

[????]

BBC Business is good on website

City AM is economically dry but some decent daily bigger picture stuff

Most business sections in the Broadsheets are reasonable

Reuters if you want to go a bit more micro/detailed

Anything by Hamish McRae

....and, I suppose, Will Hutton :)

[????]

..you won't learn F*ck all off Twitter it not being a vacouus, no need of thinking, slogan ridden,on trend 'what's the hip position', lightweight subject in general

[Ted Max]

All good suggestions. Here's a really handy way to keep across those outlets.

Reuters on twitter

City AM on twitter

BBC Business on twitter

Independent (home of Hamish McRae) biz section on twitter.

[Ted Max]

Seeking Alpha can be useful source, perhaps more for company and market (rather than economic) news: You can set up alerts for companies as well, if he needs to track any specific stocks.

Plus they do transcripts of earnings calls which may give him an insight into how listed companies go about reporting results, and the sorts of questions analysts ask etc.

http://seekingalpha.com/tag/transcripts

[StraferJack]

I quite like David McWilliams

www.davidmcwilliams.ie/

[woodrot]

hate to say it, but a sub. the economist is a good value way to go

[Lowlander]

Second for seekingalpha

For easy reading, Felix Salmon: http://blogs.reuters.com/felix-salmon/

And Robert Peston is well connected: http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/correspondents/robertpeston/

Also the FT of course, if you don't want to pay try their free Alphaville blog: http://ftalphaville.ft.com/

Then there's nakedcapitalism http://www.nakedcapitalism.com/ which is more opinionated

That should get you started, you'll find loads of links to others from there

[Lowlander]

StraferJack Wrote:

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> I quite like David McWilliams

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> www.davidmcwilliams.ie/

He looks good too, will have to add to my list - thanks for that!

[Alan Medic]

Thanks for the info everyone.

[Nigello]

http://www.bbc.co.uk/podcasts/series/wbnews World Business Report, World Service - Podcast and live 1632/1932/2232GMT (NB, GMT, not BST) http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/p00fvhj7/broadcasts/upcoming

[northlondoner]

Might I suggest Business Edition on BBC World News. Every weekday at 2100. Comprehensive , thoughtful and engaging. Expertly presented by Tanya Beckett. Editor is a genius.

[PennyDreadful]

Max Keiser and Stacy Herbert's radio show 'The Truth About Markets' on Resonance FM, Saturdays 6.30-7.30pm. (104.4 FM within London or listen online at http://resonancefm.com.) Also TV show 'The Keiser Report' on Russia Today (channel 85, if you can get it, or just look for 'Keiser Report' on youtube). The style may be somewhat histrionic, but Max and Stacy do know their stuff!