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The FT is launching five "markets blogs " rolling blog and a daily live instant-message type markets commnentary" on Monday. The blog Alphaville, is up and running already as a beta.

I’m not an avid watcher of financial markets. Worth a look for the Ajax-y goodness and slick design alone…

Thanks to Liberate Media for the story:

A message on the site is telling of how this blog will feed into the FT’s overall editorial direction: "The editorial thinking underpinning this new service from FT.com is that in a world where market professionals are inundated with information there is a pressing need to edit and filter, and hopefully sow a few ideas along the way."