Continuing on the theme of blogs and interesting sources of information, I find FT is a very good source of financial news that a lot of people are not aware of. It does compare favorably with WSJ on a lot of occasions, most recently the coverage of sub-prime melt-down. The other positive is that it is published from across the pond and is relatively free of a lot of biases in the US media. The sister site FT Alphaville (the blogging arm of FT) is very frequently updated (probably a little too much) but is insightful. On the downside, a substantial part of this site is behind the subscription wall and it is a little too focused on the British markets which you might expect of a paper based in London.

The best resource for me though is the 6 AM cut that I subscribe to. In fact this is the only newsletter I get at my work email account. It gives a short account of all the things of importance that happened in the last 24 hours. It probably takes 5-10 minutes everyday to read through it, but if it is related to the markets and is worth knowing, you would find it here.