In terms of a short-term workaround, Julie Kelemen and Lucas Huang have given you good answers. But if you're wanting to read the FT and WSJ to become a serious investor, take a moment to think more broadly about what it means to be "a serious investor." Most of the top-tier investors that I've met -- and that's a big list -- spend a lot of money to make sure t get better information than the average investor. T hire smart analysts. T put them on airplanes to go do first-hand research. T mingle at the top-tier conferences, regardless of what it costs to get in. T subscribe to all sorts of data services. And, yes, t pay for their newspapers. This spring, I was chatting with someone who uses proprietary data to make a lot of money in the rice futures market. His information costs are substantial. His profits are vastly bigger. If you really want to be a serious investor, structure your career and budget so that you can afford to pay for whatever information will make you smarter than the market. Remember that you aren't just looking for "hot tips." You're looking for background data and insights that will help you build a better conceptual model of how global economies, market cycles and company strategies all fit together. If spending money to outsmart the crowd isn't practical, buy index funds. Being willing to track the indexes will leave you ahead of people who are trying to make winning trades while subsisting on unimpressive -- or outright lousy -- information flows.
As in, don't read news you'd rather never read. There is no substitute for reading the news, of course, but the amount of misinformation available online is unprecedented and that's a good reason to take a break from reading so much negative news as well. You can also take a break from your news feed and Twitter account by turning off your Google Chrome extension. You can find instructions here. The article I referenced above had the following headline: Israel to release Palestinian prisoners in exchange for spy captured two months ago Hamas, the terror group said Wednesday that it would pay a hefty price for releasing prisoners, as the Israeli military threatened to launch a ground invasion. The Palestinian Liberation Organization (PLO) released a statement Wednesday after talks with Arab foreign ministers about the ongoing crisis at the West Bank and Gaza Strip. Israeli security officials said.