DealBook: Mainstream news service focusing on mergers and acquisitions, investment banking, I.P.O., private equity, hedge fund, and venture capital news. The M&A section is worth reading daily.
If you’re interested in merger arbitrage opportunities, DealBook is a good place to start. However, it doesn’t cover many of the most profitable opportunities, because such deals are too small to attract much notice. For smaller deals, you will need to review press releases or local newspaper clippings that don’t make national news.
DealBook is a financial news service produced by The New York Times. It is published daily, Monday-Friday, except on U.S. Market holidays and during the last week of the year.
123jump: A great resource for free earnings call summaries, fund manager Q&As, and interactive charts for economic statistics. 123jump’s staff currently conducts 200 earning calls per quarter and interviews 60 to 80 fund managers per year. The site also organizes plenty of economic data for visitors to review.
The earnings call summaries and fund manager Q&As are both amazing. There’s a lot of information on this site. This is a very worthwhile resource. The value is in the amount of content and the manner in which it is presented. The major finance portals could learn a few things from 123jump.
Warren Buffett News: A regularly updated archive of news items related to Berkshire Hathaway’s Warren Buffett. The site is powered by NewsLIB.
DigStock: A Digg style stock news site. This site does not serve a particular niche like Fat Pitch News does. Therefore, the stories tend to be less relevant for value investors. However, DigStock does manage to bring some interesting stories to your attention. It’s worth a visit.
Fat Pitch News: A community driven value investing news site. You can submit links to investment articles, “bid” up stories to the front page by clicking on the green up arrows, and make comments. With Fat Pitch News, users submit stories for review, but rather than allow an editor to decide which stories go on the front page, the users do. The goal of Fat Pitch News is to aggregate all the high quality investment information scattered across the Internet and produce a sorted list of “must read” articles selected by the community. This will save investors time and ensure that they do not miss out on important articles that might have been published on sites that they do not normally visit.
BRKNEWS: A free newsgroup that provides links to articles on Warren Buffett, Charlie Munger, and Berkshire Hathaway. The number of links is staggering. Anyone interested in Buffett and Berkshire will want to join this group. Please note BRKNEWS is not a discussion group. It provides links to news items.