Money News: Navigating News-Based Investing Strategies, Risks, and Alternatives

NerdWallet's Smart Money Podcast

NerdWallet Personal Finance

Business, Education, Investing, How To

4.2 • 665 Ratings

🗓️ 7 February 2024

⏱️ 13 minutes

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Summary

Understand news-based stock market trading strategies and risks and discover alternative strategies for smarter investing. Should you trade stocks based on news events? What are alternative investment strategies to news-based trading? Investing Nerd Sam Taube joins hosts Sean Pyles and Anna Helhoski to discuss the wisdom—or folly—of news-based trading strategies, after Sean and Anna break down the latest personal finance headlines around job market trends and consumer confidence from the University of Michigan Surveys of Consumers. Sam explains how news has played out in the stock market, including some unexpected outcomes that illustrate the difficulty in predicting market movements based on news events. The hosts transition to a discussion on alternative investment strategies, such as value investing, growth investing, and dividend investing. They delve into the nuances of these approaches, offering three listener-focused takeaways to help navigate the complexities of the stock market. In their conversation, the Nerds discuss: personal finance, investing strategies, stock trading, financial news, alternative investments, value investing, growth investing, dividend investing, market trends, economic data, interest rates, consumer confidence, money headlines, job market, stock market, news-based trading strategies, investing tips, wealth management, market analysis, financial literacy, money management, investment options, economic indicators, stock market outlook, financial trends, investment decisions, news events, market volatility, economic outlook, investing education, and portfolio management. To send the Nerds your money questions, call or text the Nerd hotline at 901-730-6373 or email [email protected]. Like what you hear? Please leave us a review and tell a friend. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:33.0	Welcome to NerdWallet's Smart Money Podcast.
0:35.7	I'm Sean Piles.
0:36.9	And I'm on a hell Hoski.
0:38.2	And this is our weekly personal finance news roundup, where we take a look at recent developments in the world of money and then go in depth on an issue that's important to your life and your bottom line.
0:48.3	Today we're going to talk with investing nerd Sam Talb about trading on news events and whether or not you should do it.
0:54.5	First, a few money headlines in the last few days.
0:59.1	So, Anna, I feel like a broken record here, but to quote a certain battery bunny, the job
1:04.9	market just keeps going and going and going.
1:08.8	For anyone wanting to get a job or change a job, that's a pretty great broken record.
1:13.0	Yeah, the Labor Department reported that employers added 350,000 jobs in January.
1:19.0	On top of that, it revised its figures upward for December by 100,000 jobs.
1:23.9	The unemployment rate held steady at 3.7%.
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