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by thisisfmu 5407 days ago
It's basically search engine spam generated from SEC docs. Adds needless verbosity to when people want the info in a concise format. When looking for actionable financial info I hate having to read through sentences when a table or graph will do. Consider why audio podcasts never really caught on for non-entertainment.
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I don't know how to read an S1, which is why I go to places like CNBC and the sort in the first place. Granted, I'm not a financial services kind of guy, but it's useful to have that info generated in a digestible format. I don't think the podcast analog works quite right... it's more like taking a blog post from tech crunch, and automagically repurposing it for usa today by adding relevant context programmatically. There's definitely value in that, but I don't think it's "Bloomberg" money.