Hi, I'm Lisa Mateo, introducing you to the new Stockmovers report from Bloomberg.

These are short audio reports, five minutes or less, delivered right to your podcast feed throughout the day.

Stockmovers fills you in on the day's winners and losers on Wall Street and tells you about the news and data that's

driving those gains and losses. If you want to stay plugged into the stock market, but don't

want to spend all day watching tickers scroll across your screen, then Stock Movers is a place for you

to get informed. Listen a couple times throughout the day to find out what's moving equities and why.

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Get the latest stock news and data backed by reporting from Bloomberg's 3,000 journalists and analysts across the globe.

Subscribe to Stockmovers, wherever you get your podcasts. Wall Street relies on data,

economic releases, quarterly earnings, performance comparisons, but it's really easy to get tripped up by all of this math. How should investors

manage this fire hose of numbers? To help us navigate this, let's bring in Pulitzer Prize

winning reporter Michael Hiltzik. He covers business for the Los Angeles Times. He's a two-time

winner of the Gerald Loeb Award and has

authored numerous books on business. So, Michael, let's just start with the basics. How do you manage

this endless torrent of data that comes our way? Well, that's a good question. Mostly, I try to

ignore most of it, and I curate what I use and what I rely on.

And basically the way I work is I start with a topic that I want to explore, a subject I want to explore.

And then I go search out the data that I need. And that way I'm not affected.

I mean, there are some sources that, you know, come across my emails regularly that I will pay some attention to.

But most of it, I don't.

And I know where to go most of the time for what I need.

So let's talk about that.

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