Use The News: How To Separate the Noise from the Investment Nuggets and Make Money in Any Economy [Hardcover]

Maria;Fredman, Catherine Bartiromo (Author)

Book Description

Publication Date: June 5, 2001

In her highly anticipated new book, television's ace financial reporter CNBC anchorwoman Maria Bartiromo shows you how to use timely news and hot information to make money in today's market.

A media luminary with the solid credentials of a seasoned pro, Maria Bartiromo has set the standard for business news programming, delivering indispensable, up-to-the-minute information from the New York Stock Exchange. Known for her spot on calls, her straightforward on-air manner, and her willingness to ask tough questions, she is probably the most famous and visible business news correspondent in the business media today and one of the top five most influential voices on Wall Street. Maria was the first person to report live from the floor of the New York Stock Exchange and continues to do so every day on CNBC's SQUAWK BOX.

In Use The News, Maria Bartiromo mines her years of frontline experience, on camera and behind the scenes, to identify all the tools you need to seize control of your financial decisions and better manage your portfolio.For investors, stock market enthusiasts, and anyone who wants to make smarter financial decisions, Maria offers a revealing look at the methods that made her famous, explaining how to separate the news from the noise and find the true information nuggets that affect the stock market most:How to tell which company announcements are important and which are simply fluff.Where you can find hidden gems of investment information.How to get the lowdown on a company's CEO and management team.How to use the Internet to find useful information amid all of the clutter.How the government can affect your investment decisions.When to trust market professionals -- and when to ignore them.What really matters on a company's balance sheet.Which red flags mean trouble in different industry sectors.

Every day, to bring the latest news and stock picks to her viewers, Maria relies on the expertise of the sharpest people on Wall Street. She is one of the most connected financial journalists working today -- making her Rolodex a virtual who's who of financial wizards.

In Use The News she has picked the brains of the best and the brightest and brings their secrets to you, the individual investor. As a result, you'll get exceptional tips from some of the most influential people on Wall Street, the same people whom Maria relies on every day to help her handicap the market. The result is an indispensable investment handbook where you, too, can learn the secrets of the Wall Street insiders, take control of your investments, and make money in any economy.

Maria Bartiromo a former producer, writer, and editor of CNN Business News, now hosts and coproduces her own show on CNBC, Market Week with Maria Bartiromo. She also anchors CNBC's Street Signs and Market Wrap on a daily basis. She is a contributing news commentator to NBC's Today Show, MSNBC, and other NBC affiliates nationwide. Her popular monthly column can be found in Individual Investor magazine. A graduate of New York University, she lives in New York City with her husband, Jonathan Steinberg, founder and chief executive officer of Individual Investor Group.

Editorial Reviews

Amazon.com Review

Virtually everyone tuned into the stock market during the past few years is plugged into CNBC, and virtually everyone plugged into CNBC is familiar with Maria Bartiromo. Striking, articulate, and always at the center of the cable station's Wall Street action, Bartiromo has become a welcome source of fiscal authority through incisive but accessible daily TV appearances that stretch from the early morning Squawk Box to late afternoon's Market Wrap. Many viewers may think that her take on each day's events, and long-range perspective based upon them, are derived from years of academic study and exclusive inside tips. Not so, Bartiromo claims in Use the News. She says average investors can also separate the noise from the news and guide themselves to more profitable portfolios. In clear prose--like the direct language she employs on TV--Bartiromo shares the ideas and expertise of some of the Street's top executives, money managers, and analysts, explaining how the markets and financial-news machines really work and describing ways anyone can gather and assess useful data. "In this book, I'll expand on what I already do in my broadcasts: namely, level the playing field so that individual investors have the same information, understanding, and chances of success as the professionals," she writes. Fans, and even nonfans, should enjoy it. --Howard Rothman

From Publishers Weekly

With the stock market tumbling, investors who can efficiently sift through all the available financial information will have the best sense of how a stock will perform, claims Bartiromo. After all, that's what she does every day as an anchor for CNBC's Street Signs and Market Wrap, as a featured reporter on the cable channel's popular Squawk Box segment and as producer and host of Market Week with Maria Bartiromo. In a friendly, hands-on style, she offers readers a view of the stock market (both the big picture and various market sectors) from her vantage point as a reporter on the floor of the NYSE. No "math whiz," Bartiromo is adamant that understanding the market requires nothing more than "common sense and doing your homework." Relying on analysis from investment pros, corporate chiefs, dozens of excellent Web sites (ranging from those that carry breaking news about corporate events to government sites that store reams of meaningful data), faxes, e-mails and phone calls, Bartiromo demonstrates firsthand how she focuses on real-time, relevant data, analyzes what it does (and doesn't) say and puts the distilled information into context. Most important, Bartiromo reminds investors that they shouldn't rely on or always believe what they hear about a stock on television or read on the Internet without first doing some research of their own, even if the source is CNBC's star financial personality. (June)Forecast: Readers will find Bartiromo's voice of reason as appealing on the page as on the small screen. With a 25-city national radio campaign and a 15-city NPR syndicated feature, this book is bound for the business bestseller lists.

Copyright 2001 Cahners Business Information, Inc.

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Product Details

• Hardcover: 288 pages
• Publisher: HarperBusiness; 1st edition (June 5, 2001)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 0066620864
• ISBN-13: 978-0066620862
• Product Dimensions: 9.2 x 6.4 x 1.1 inches
• Shipping Weight: 14.4 ounces
• Average Customer Review: 2.8 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (47 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #1,955,447 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

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46 of 46 people found the following review helpful:

1.0 out of 5 stars It's what the book DOESN'T say that counts., October 17, 2001

By A Customer

This review is from: Use The News: How To Separate the Noise from the Investment Nuggets and Make Money in Any Economy (Hardcover)

Maria Bartiromo is not a money manager. She's a reporter, and one without any real insights of her own. After all, this is the woman who, when asked if the market was in danger of crashing about a year ago, blithely replied that in the Internet age, a correction that used to take 2 years to complete could be over in 2 weeks. But don't blame poor Maria. She was probably just repeating what somebody told her the day before.

So if she doesn't have insights of her own, what exactly did she put into this book? Mostly comments by other people. In fact more than half of the book consists of lengthy quotations from Maria's Wall Street cronies. But what sort of people cozy up to the media on Wall Street? Why, it's the marketing and PR people of course. So there you have it. It's no accident that so much of the book was devoted to relentless name-dropping. After all this book is mostly a marketing campaign for Maria and her friends on the Street.

That doesn't mean that everything in the book is false. In fact, most things said in the book are true. But as with most marketing campaigns, the problem is not what they tell you, but what they DON'T tell you. The used car salesman may not outright lie to you, he just won't mention that the transmission has been rebuilt. So don't expect any deep, incisive expose of Wall Street practices in this book. When people talk to a reporter, they won't say anything that's bad for their firm. When a reporter writes a book, she wouldn't say anything that makes her sources look bad.

What's in this book is also in many other books. Save your money.

26 of 27 people found the following review helpful:

1.0 out of 5 stars Stop...don't buy this book., August 1, 2001

By A Customer

This review is from: Use The News: How To Separate the Noise from the Investment Nuggets and Make Money in Any Economy (Hardcover)

I had read many of the negative reviews for this book, but decided to ignore them and picked up the book in an airport bookstore (that's right, a full price book store...ouch!). What a waste of money. You guys were right, and I should have listened to you. You guys who wrote the congratulatory reviews must be friends of Maria's because you couldn't have read this book.

Just to show I am a complete follower, I also read Navigate the Noise by Bernstein as suggested in one of the other reviews of Maria's book. Nav the Noise is a much much more helpful book.

So, I'm one for two.

34 of 37 people found the following review helpful:

1.0 out of 5 stars A terrible book ..., December 16, 2001

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Mark Van Dine (Hingham, MA USA) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Use The News: How To Separate the Noise from the Investment Nuggets and Make Money in Any Economy (Hardcover)

Simply another marketing exercise of tying a book, any book, to an attractive face with some media exposure to make some quick money. Not much difference between this and a Life Philosophy book by Vanna White or a biography of Britney Spears. The content is basic new investor instruction that you can find done better and for free at Web sites like Motley Fool and others. Very badly organized with lots of extraneous material ... this book is at least two rewrites away from an acceptable first effort. Look elsewhere, friend.