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Resources for Indian stock markets

Charting

BSE 's Charting (Very good. An online Metastock module for Bse listed shares)
Justify Full
iCharts (A static but good for basic technical research)

VFM Direct (It uses iCharts' charting software. A good mirror from charting perspective. Also has very good technical data)


Forums and Data

Desi Trader mall: Run by Prashanth and friends, who also manage BSENSE2005 at Yahoogroups. Provides free data for Indian stock exchanges including intraday, commodities, futures and options and EOD data

Yahoo Finance (Very good for historical data)

National Stock Exchange (Along with SEBI & BSE is the primary source of all information on Indian stock markets)

Yahoo Groups (Technical Investor)

Google Groups (Investment Super Group)

Traderji forums

NASDAQ

Individuals

Vivek Patil

Phil Smith

Rohit Srivastava

Rakesh Jhunjhunwala (?)


Other blogs

Smell the Cheese blog

Value Notes

Portals and Commentary

Equitymaster

Money Control


International business

Market Watch

New York Times Business

Google Finance

Yahoo Finance


Forex

Action Forex

Daily Fx

Forex Factory (has very good and active forums)

FxStreet (Very good for data and charts)


Google Searches

Crude Oil

US business

UK business


UK & Europe

Guardian Business

Independent Business


Insights

Morgan Stanley GEF

Financial Sense

Prudent Bear

Kitco

Zeal LLC

Economist

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