Please stay tuned for important disclosure information at the conclusion of this episode. Hello, and welcome to a special episode of the Morning Filter podcast. I'm Susan

Jubinsky with Morningstar. Every Monday before market open, I sit down with Morningstar

Chief U.S. market strategist Dave Secaira to talk about what investors

should have on their radars for the week, some new Morning Star research, and a few stock ideas.

But this week, as those of you who are watching us can tell, we're doing something a little different.

We're taking a deep dive into one reader question, a very thoughtful and multifaceted one about signal versus noise.

We hope this conversation will yield some key takeaways our audience can use when evaluating

stocks. And of course, we'll still have some stock picks at the end of the episode. We'll never let

you down. We're taping this on Tuesday, May 12th. Good to see you in person, Dave. You know, it's strange. I'm so used to saying good morning and seeing you on the screen and here we are face-to-face. So it'll be fun this afternoon, but I was going to say, I was going to say, but it's a boring white mug. You're letting everybody down there, Dave, but that's what we have here at Morning Star. We got's what we got.

That's right.

That's right.

All right.

So let me lead with the viewer's question.

This is a great question.

We're going to break it down into multiple parts.

It's from Christian, who is tuning in from Hungary on top of it all, which is pretty cool.

Christian asks, I wonder if Dave can provide

viewers and listeners with some useful tips and hints on filtering out noise from all the news.

I personally consider this a very important factor in successfully navigating through volatile times,

such as the last few months this year.

Well, right question.

So let's start with, you know, how important do you think this skill is for a stock investor?

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