"While it's wonderful that investors have access to all the data now available to them, it has become a full-time job to sift through it and separate out the valuable news from the useless noise"
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The subtext is about who actually benefits from this flood. When the work becomes sorting, the edge goes to those with tools, teams, and time: institutions, professionals, and media platforms that can package chaos into a narrative. Retail investors, meanwhile, are left to confuse motion for insight, refreshing dashboards and mistaking volume of input for quality of judgment. “Valuable news” versus “useless noise” is also a subtle admission that markets are no longer just about fundamentals; they’re about attention. What moves prices isn’t always what matters - it’s what trends.
Contextually, this fits the post-24/7 financial media world Bartiromo helped shape: constant updates, instant commentary, social amplification. It’s a rare self-aware critique from inside the system, acknowledging that the same ecosystem that sells “more information” also manufactures more distraction. The quote works because it refuses the naive tech-optimism that data automatically equals clarity. It implies a harsher truth: in modern finance, the scarce resource isn’t information; it’s discernment.
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APA Style (7th ed.)
Bartiromo, Maria. (2026, January 16). While it's wonderful that investors have access to all the data now available to them, it has become a full-time job to sift through it and separate out the valuable news from the useless noise. FixQuotes. https://fixquotes.com/quotes/while-its-wonderful-that-investors-have-access-to-134138/
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Bartiromo, Maria. "While it's wonderful that investors have access to all the data now available to them, it has become a full-time job to sift through it and separate out the valuable news from the useless noise." FixQuotes. January 16, 2026. https://fixquotes.com/quotes/while-its-wonderful-that-investors-have-access-to-134138/.
MLA Style (9th ed.)
"While it's wonderful that investors have access to all the data now available to them, it has become a full-time job to sift through it and separate out the valuable news from the useless noise." FixQuotes, 16 Jan. 2026, https://fixquotes.com/quotes/while-its-wonderful-that-investors-have-access-to-134138/. Accessed 9 Feb. 2026.

