I'm gonna be honest with you. The news is cool if you just want to know what's going on but majority of the time, the information given in the news isn't gonna yield any profits since most events are priced in before they're reported. Unless of course it's some major, sudden event that no one could have foreseen. That being said, I check out bloomberg, Wall Street journal, zero hedge and a few others. I also subscribe to a lot of sources on twitter.
It depends on what you use, have been trading for over 15+ years. I have used so many news sites over the time and have to say the two best that work and are actionable have been flyonthewall and thetradexchange.com .. Try them out I am sure you will be happy after you used them
Hopefully, TS doesn't mind me piggybacking on his question. In trade, I offer him Gartman letters as something to look into. Onto my question, what other online alternatives are there which are similar in output to zerohedge? Similar in the sense of: Independent analysis, macro oriented, free and frequent updates tracking the days trading sentiments. I find ZH very useful in understanding global flows on a intra daybasis. Would love to know if there are other sites like that out there. 'Actionability' is not a huge criteria. Thanks
Update- Have to say, thank you very much. Both those services are amazing .. Flyonthewall is so good on up/downgrades .. thetradexchange.com is probably the best one I used, their calls are so fast and am able to trade on each one, the guys their are great as well. If anyone uses them let them know I referred you guys!