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1. How would you classify yourself? (Select all that apply)

I'm casually interested in the news, but I'm not an investor.

My interest in news is for business reasons, as opposed to investment reasons.

I let my broker handle most or all of my account.

I take care of my own investments, buying or selling some stocks/funds a few times a year.

I am a day trader.

I manage a pension.

I am a financial professional. (Broker, Advisor, Analyst)

2. How much time per day (hours) do you spend reading business news online? (News sites/Blogs/Message Boards)

3. Which sites do you use the most? (one per line)

4. In print form? (Newspapers/Magazines, one per line)

5. What are your major annoyances with online news? (Select all that apply)

Too much to actually read

Lacking in quality

Too spread out

Hard to tell if a source has any authority

Hard to tell if an article is relevant to me

Even with online search tools, finding good articles is difficult

Other

6. Do you read entire articles, skim the articles, read only headlines? (Select the closest answer)

Only read entire articles

Only skim

Only read headlines

Usually read the entire articles, but sometimes skim or just read headlines

Usually skim or just read headlines, but sometimes read articles

Only ever look at headlines

7. How do you choose which stories you actually read?

8. How do you search for news?

9. Do you feel like you are able to cover enough ground to get an adequate understanding of the news you are interested in?

10. If you could more efficiently perform your investment research, would you spend the freed time doing more research (e.g. to diversify or expand your portfolio), or doing something else?

11. Do you use a trading platform or terminal? Which one?

12. If you invest, what do you typically invest in? (Check all that apply)

Stocks (Major Exchanges)

Stocks (OTC)

Bonds

Mutual Funds

ETFs

Options

Futures

Currencies

Commodities

Other

13. Do you subscribe to any wire feeds?

Associated Press

Bloomberg

Business Wire

Dow Jones

PR Newswire

Thompson Reuters

Other

14. Do you use: (check all that apply)

RSS/Atom

SMS/Text Messaging

Twitter

Facebook

Blackberry

iPhone

15. How much money, if any, do you spend doing your financial research on a MONTHLY basis?

16. Where? (Yahoo! Finance, Wall Street Journal, TheStreet.com, Morningstar, FirstRain, Reuters, etc.)

17. Do you have an online brokerage account? If so, with which company?

18. Do you track your portfolio online? If so, where?

19. Do you modify your equity holdings based on news?

Yes

No

20. If not, why do you read the news?