W hether you are interested in the stock market or don’t possess any knowledge of it, keeping track of its movers and shakers is essential. From soft economic news, to stock market and detailed financial analysis reports, a little expertise never hurts.
Business Today gives you a list of what we think are the best financial blogs worldwide, where you can get the savviest takes on the world’s economy as well as the various benchmarks and markets. Also, bt provides you with a couple of the best regional and local markets’ sites. Our choices range from hard-core financial news and blogs that contain solid reports and analysis of the markets, to a couple  of the so-called ‘economics for dummies’ sites.

Worldwide

Economix
For some, having a blog released by a prominent publication like The New York Times makes it a good source to rely on. Most of the financial news presented by the publications is newsworthy and reliable. However, Economix takes it to a new level with detailed analysis and assessments of the different markets. The blog may not have much depth regarding finance-related news, but they give a good overview and provide analysis. They also have podcasts available about interesting topics related to economics and markets. The blog is essential for beginners and the budding economist at heart.
www.economic.blogs.nytimes.com

Real Time Economics
Unlike Economix, which presents financial and economic topics in a light way, looking at its name, Real Time Economics could be viewed as a hardcore financial blog. It is The Wall Street Journal’s blog, making it a good source when it comes to pure economics. Different from other blogs that relate economics to everyday topics, Real Time Economics gives its readers a wide variety of economic analysis and commentaries as well as coverage of the different stock markets. The blog provides coverage of both the US and worldwide financial news.
Some of its interesting categories and topics include Credit Crisis, Global, Economists React, Number of the Week, Business Cycles and Consumption.
http://blogs.wsj.com/economics/ 

Freakonomics
If you’re looking for economics in even the tiniest of details, Freakonomics is for you. The blog involves economic thinking with compelling human-interest stories.
Freakonomics helps you explore economics and financials in a fun way — for example, analyzing the “economic behavior of 12-year-olds.” Contributors to the blog feed it almost every hour with new and interesting articles. You might think it’s just made for fun, but actual hard-core economists contribute, proving the point that you don’t have to be so serious about economics. The blog basically emphasizes “the hidden side of everything” by mixing financial news with everyday details.
www.freakonomics.com/blog

Free Exchange

Coming from another prominent name, Free Exchange is The Economist’s financial blog. Although The Economist is one of the leading publications in this field, some may criticize the magazine for its lengthy articles.
Unlike The Economist, Free Exchange brings to the readers shorter and more engaging economic pieces — helpful for those who are looking for hard-core financial reports, as well as those just first venturing out into the world of economics.
The blog shows the fluctuations and policies that shape the world economy.
www.economist.com/blog/freeexchange

MarketBeat

MarketBeat is another blog by The Wall Street Journal. Unlike Real Time Economics, MarketBeat has a different focus, or actually one main focus under which most of its articles fall. It tries to go deep within Wall Street opening and closing bell, in search of market-moving news and assess all the different topics related to the field.
www.blogs.wsj.com/marketbeat

A taste of local flavor

GCC and UAE
In terms of regional financial news, GCC and UAE Finance and Investment News is a very useful source. The blog’s author, Rupert Bumfrey, assesses articles written by Gulf countries’ newspapers, as well as international ones, to present to his readers some of the best articles written about news related to this area. 
Bumfrey’s primary focus is investments in this region or related countries, but a variety of news about the region comes through.
www.rupertbumfrey.blogspot.com

Egypt
Regarding financial blogs focusing on Egypt, Mubasher is a good one that provides readers with hard-core news about the stock market, Egypt’s economy and a variety of figures and reports related to the market and neighboring or leading markets. The blog is written in Arabic.
www.blogs.mubasher.info

Another interesting and light news or analysis blog is Economic Café. It actually tackles pure economics, through its presence in both politics and society. It’s an easy website people who would like to acquire a basic understanding of how economics transpires in Egypt. It is also available in Arabic. bt
www.theeconomiccafe.blogspot.com