Many investors subscribe or at least follow the social media of a handful news publications to receive updates about the financial markets.
Bloomberg, Financial Times, The Business Times and The Edge Singapore come into mind, but this isn’t the best way to follow the development of companies if you are a stock investor.
#1 – The first reason being that the news publications would take time to write the stories and get them approved for publishing.
It will take at least hours from the first release of the information to get published in the press. You would want to get ahead of most investors in a legal manner (not insider information) by receiving the information before the news publish it.
#2 – The second reason is that you would also want to receive the information at source to prevent misinterpretations and translation losses. Journalists are humans too. They have their biases and job...