About this episode

The episode explores the impact of financial news on investor behavior and includes a discussion on building a conservative brokerage account for retirement.

Can keeping up with financial news actually make you a better investor—or just make you more confident about making bad decisions? Don and Tom dig into research on how markets react to news, why investors tend to overreact to splashy stories and underreact to boring numbers, and whether sophisticated traders can actually exploit those inefficiencies. Then, a caller nearing retirement asks how to build a conservative brokerage account to bridge the years before Social Security. Plus, the guys ...

People in this episode

Hosts: Don McDonald, Tom

Topics covered

• financial news
• investing decisions
• market reactions
• investor behavior
• brokerage account
• retirement planning

Keywords

• financial news
• investor behavior
• market reactions
• retirement planning
• brokerage account
• investing decisions

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