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05/13/21 11:48 AM

#6676 RE: Watts Watt #6673

Watts watt, another lament— let’s explore what “post more articles” means. There are copy right rules that restrict how article posting is done. Add to that, articles found are a bit like the blind men describing the part of the elephant they are touching. When I do simple exploring of headlines, the links pop up an ad describing how I need to pay to unblock the content. I am willing to pay for quality article access but my searching crosses paths to dozens of sources and blogs and it is not practical to subscribe to them all. Buying an article is like the old expression, “buying a pig in a poke” such that you don’t know if the value received warrants paying the price—and it usually doesn’t. Ultimately, the old media system where the papers or magazines that carried financial and weather news and were hosted by advertisers selling groceries, shoes, cars, electronic gadgets and the like have mostly disappeared to be replaced by blog spots on pages funded by the likes of investment banks and hedge funds with a self serving interest or through social media that is monitored to assure content reflects some committee’s interpretation of “right thinking”. ..

Cliffs does press releases, paying for them to be posted, but they quickly get smothered by the paid content spin articles, which in my opinion, seek to distort as much as inform. Within all that, investors have seen Cliffs release earnings guidance updates affirming excellent prospects for 2021. Validation comes with audited quarterly earnings reports. Yet, company PRs are buried with analyst projections that are antiquated (pandemic period influenced) or don’t even get it right that Cliffs became an integrated steel company in December 2020.

So how do you navigate your way to quality information to support your investing?