CNBC -- But mostly for the CEO Interviews, datapoints, and earnings announcements. Plus the occasional news news (CFO resigned, investigation started, M&A happening, etc.) Ignore the commentary. Reuters -- Filtered feed on Reuters per stock, then go through stocks of interest to see what happened. Do this if I see large price action, or every day or so to keep up with anything that might have happened of interest. Reuters / AP -- General news articles of interest to keep up with what's going on in the world. Read from phone when away from computer. Not much else is needed. At the end of the day it really breaks down into two categories of news: Facts and Commentary. The facts are often easy enough to get through various websites or trading terminals. The commentary is where there is a large amount of variable sources, but as to its value -- that is purely up to you and your requirements.
twitter via tweetdeck is good. trading the news release is prob edgeless to non-algo traders. but there is still some edge in following news. you want to know via news if majority of the instis have a long dollar view. n it pays to take the opposite view at zones where these players will cut & change their views.
Newsletters are shit... written by 'analysts' who make money by printing newsletters.. not by trading. Just use the normal decent news sites, such as Barrons, MarketWatch, Bloomberg, Reuters... and take their analysis with a pinch of salt, because (again) written by analysts who make money by printing words, not trading...
%% I like WSJ some= NOT that their 65 day moving average means anything@ all LOL. Frankly its 15 days late , but even a stopped clock can be right some [ LOL] IBD[Investors Business Daily Newspaper]+ their website investors.com. 200+ 50 day moving average has much better news than WSJ.WSJ is number one in circulation...........................................................