Should Investors Ignore Daily Market News? The Case for Tuning Out

In March 2020, a retail investor named David checked his portfolio fourteen times in a single day. The S&P 500 had just dropped 12% in a week. CNN was running a death-toll ticker alongside a stock-market ticker. Every financial pundit on television was competing to deliver the most apocalyptic forecast. David sold everything — his index funds, his blue-chip holdings, even the dividend stocks he had patiently accumulated over seven years. He locked in a 34% loss. Within eighteen months, the market had not only recovered but surged to all-time highs. David’s portfolio, had he simply closed his brokerage app and gone for a walk, would have been worth more than ever.

David’s story is not unusual. It is, in fact, the norm. The average retail investor underperforms the market by roughly 1.5% per year, and a growing body of research points to a surprising culprit: not lack of knowledge, not bad stock picks, but too much information consumed too frequently. The 24-hour financial news cycle, designed to keep you watching and clicking, is arguably the single greatest destroyer of individual investor returns in the modern era.

This post explores a counterintuitive idea — that the best thing most investors can do for their portfolios is to dramatically reduce their consumption of daily market news. We will look at the research, examine the habits of history’s most successful investors, identify what information actually matters versus what is pure noise, and build a practical media consumption framework that keeps you informed without keeping you anxious.

The Financial News Noise Machine

There was a time when investors received market information once a day — in the morning newspaper. They would check the closing prices, perhaps read a brief column about economic conditions, and go about their lives. Today, the average investor has access to real-time price feeds, push notifications for every 0.5% market move, a Twitter/X feed full of hot takes, three financial news channels competing for attention, and an endless stream of podcast episodes explaining why today’s market move means everything.

The financial media industry generates approximately $10 billion in annual revenue globally. That revenue comes not from helping you make better investment decisions, but from keeping you engaged. Every headline is crafted to provoke an emotional response. Every “BREAKING NEWS” banner is designed to make you feel that inaction is dangerous. The business model of financial media is fundamentally misaligned with your goals as a long-term investor.

Consider the typical day on a financial news channel. The morning begins with pre-market analysis explaining why futures are up or down, attributing the move to some overnight development. By midday, the narrative has often shifted entirely. If the market reversed, a new explanation is offered with equal confidence. By the closing bell, a third narrative may have emerged. Each of these stories is delivered with urgency and authority, yet none of them have any predictive value for what will happen tomorrow, next week, or next year.

The Headline Problem

Financial headlines are engineered for clicks, not clarity. A study by researchers at the University of California found that financial news headlines systematically overrepresent negative events and use emotionally charged language that triggers fear and urgency. The same 2% market decline might be described as a “selloff,” a “rout,” a “plunge,” or a “bloodbath” depending on how much attention the publication needs that day.

Here is a telling exercise. Go back and read financial headlines from any random week five years ago. You will find urgent warnings about crises that never materialized, breathless coverage of “pivotal” events that turned out to be meaningless, and confident predictions that were completely wrong. The information felt critical at the time. In retrospect, virtually none of it mattered.

The Cost of Information Overload

The human brain did not evolve to process continuous streams of financial data. When exposed to constant market updates, our brains activate the same fight-or-flight responses that kept our ancestors alive on the savanna. A 2% portfolio decline triggers the amygdala — the brain’s threat detection center — in the same way a predator sighting would have triggered it 100,000 years ago. The rational, analytical prefrontal cortex gets overridden by primitive survival instincts.

This is not a metaphor. Neuroscience research using fMRI imaging has shown that financial losses activate the same brain regions as physical pain. When you watch your portfolio decline in real-time on a stock ticker, you are literally experiencing a form of pain. And what do humans do when they experience pain? They take action to make it stop. In the context of investing, that action is almost always selling — which is almost always the wrong move at the wrong time.

The more frequently you check your portfolio, the more often you experience this pain. An investor who checks daily will observe a loss on roughly 46% of all trading days, even in a market that trends upward over time. An investor who checks monthly will see a loss about 38% of the time. An investor who checks annually will see a loss only about 27% of the time. The underlying investment is identical — only the frequency of observation changes. But the emotional experience, and therefore the likelihood of making a fear-driven mistake, is dramatically different.

What the Research Actually Says

The relationship between news consumption, trading frequency, and investment returns has been studied extensively over the past two decades. The findings are remarkably consistent: more attention to financial news leads to more trading, and more trading leads to worse returns.

The Barber and Odean Studies

Perhaps the most influential research on this topic comes from professors Brad Barber and Terrance Odean at UC Davis and UC Berkeley. In their landmark study of over 66,000 brokerage accounts from 1991 to 1996, they found that the most active traders — those who turned over their portfolios most frequently — underperformed the least active traders by 6.5 percentage points per year. The most active quintile earned an average annual return of 11.4%, while the least active quintile earned 18.5%. Both groups had access to similar information. The difference was how often they acted on it.

In a follow-up study, Barber and Odean examined the transition from phone-based trading to online trading. When investors gained easier access to real-time market data and one-click trading, their trading frequency increased by 75% on average. Their returns, however, declined. The easier it became to act on information, the worse investors performed.

Myopic Loss Aversion

Nobel laureate Richard Thaler and economist Shlomo Benartzi coined the term “myopic loss aversion” to describe the tendency of investors who evaluate their portfolios frequently to become overly focused on short-term losses. Their research demonstrated that when investors evaluate outcomes over shorter time horizons, they become more risk-averse and more likely to shift their assets toward bonds and cash, sacrificing long-term returns.

In an elegant experimental design, Thaler and Benartzi gave participants the same investment options but varied how frequently they received performance updates. Participants who received monthly updates allocated significantly less to stocks than those who received annual updates, even though the underlying investment characteristics were identical. The frequent evaluators were so distressed by short-term volatility that they forfeited the long-term equity premium — the extra return that stocks provide over safer assets precisely because they are more volatile in the short run.

The DALBAR Findings

Each year, the research firm DALBAR publishes its Quantitative Analysis of Investor Behavior (QAIB), and each year, the findings tell the same story. Over the 30-year period ending in 2023, the average equity fund investor earned roughly 7.3% per year, while the S&P 500 returned approximately 10.1% per year. That 2.8 percentage point gap, compounded over decades, represents hundreds of thousands of dollars in lost wealth for the average investor.

The DALBAR research consistently identifies the primary cause of this underperformance: badly timed buying and selling driven by emotional reactions to market events. Investors pile into the market after it has risen (buying high) and flee after it has fallen (selling low). This pattern — the precise opposite of what a rational investor would do — is driven almost entirely by the emotional responses triggered by constant exposure to financial news and market data.

The Hidden Cost of Trading

Beyond the behavioral mistakes, frequent trading driven by news consumption carries direct costs. Every trade involves a bid-ask spread — you buy at a slightly higher price and sell at a slightly lower price than the “market price.” For liquid stocks, this spread might be just a few cents, but for smaller or less liquid securities, it can be substantial. An investor who makes 100 trades per year instead of 10 is paying this spread tax ten times as often.

Then there are taxes. In most jurisdictions, short-term capital gains (from assets held less than one year) are taxed at higher rates than long-term capital gains. The news-driven trader who constantly rotates positions is converting what could be tax-advantaged long-term gains into fully taxable short-term gains. Studies estimate that taxes alone reduce the returns of active traders by 1-2 percentage points per year compared to buy-and-hold investors.

Signal vs. Noise: What News Actually Matters

Saying “ignore the news” is easy. Actually doing it requires understanding which information has genuine investment relevance and which is pure noise. The truth is that not all financial news is worthless — a small fraction of it genuinely matters. The challenge is that this signal is buried under an avalanche of noise, and the financial media makes no distinction between the two.

Information That Actually Moves Long-Term Value

There is a short list of information categories that have a genuine, measurable impact on long-term investment outcomes. Everything else is noise.

Federal Reserve policy decisions. When the Fed changes interest rates or adjusts its monetary policy stance, it directly affects the cost of capital for every business in the economy. Rate hikes make borrowing more expensive, which slows economic growth and typically pressures stock valuations. Rate cuts have the opposite effect. These decisions matter — but they happen only eight times per year, and the actual decision is usually well-telegraphed in advance. You do not need to watch CNBC for 2,000 hours a year to catch eight announcements.

Company earnings reports. Quarterly earnings reports provide actual data about whether a business is growing, shrinking, or stagnating. Revenue growth, profit margins, cash flow, and forward guidance are the fundamental building blocks of stock valuation. If you own individual stocks, you should read the earnings reports of the companies you own. But again, this happens four times per year per company. You need perhaps an hour per quarter per holding, not constant monitoring.

Major macroeconomic data. Monthly jobs reports, inflation data (CPI), GDP growth figures, and consumer spending data provide a broad picture of economic health. These reports matter, but they are released on a known schedule, and their implications unfold over months and years, not minutes and hours.

Significant structural shifts. Major regulatory changes, technological disruptions, trade policy shifts, or geopolitical events that alter the fundamental operating environment for industries or economies. These are rare — perhaps a few genuinely significant developments per year — and their implications play out over long time horizons.

Information That Is Pure Noise

Everything else. And “everything else” constitutes roughly 95% of daily financial news output. Here is what you can safely ignore:

Daily market commentary. “The Dow fell 200 points today on concerns about…” These after-the-fact narratives are fabricated by journalists who need to explain random market fluctuations. Research by behavioral economists has demonstrated that daily market moves are largely random and that the “explanations” offered by financial media have no predictive value. The market went up because more people bought than sold. The market went down because more people sold than bought. That is the entire explanation. Everything else is storytelling.

Pundit predictions. CXO Advisory Group tracked over 6,500 predictions by 68 market forecasters and found that the average accuracy was 47% — slightly worse than a coin flip. The financial media’s most prominent voices are, on average, less accurate than random chance at predicting market direction. Yet they deliver their forecasts with enormous confidence, and investors listen.

Pre-market and after-hours analysis. The breathless speculation about what “futures are telling us” about the upcoming trading day is pure entertainment. Pre-market futures have minimal predictive value for where the market will close, much less where it will be in a month or a year.

Analyst price targets. Wall Street analysts’ price targets are revised constantly and tend to follow stock prices rather than predict them. Research by McKinsey found that analyst forecasts for earnings growth are systematically too optimistic and have been for decades.

Breaking news that feels urgent but is not. A CEO making a controversial statement. A single-day move in oil prices. A regulatory investigation that may or may not lead to anything. The latest crypto drama. A politician’s comments about a particular industry. These stories dominate headlines but have negligible impact on long-term business fundamentals.

How Buffett, Bogle, and the Greats Consume Media

If consuming more financial news led to better investment outcomes, we would expect history’s greatest investors to be the most voracious news consumers. The opposite is true. The most successful investors in history have been remarkably disciplined about limiting their exposure to the daily noise of financial media.

Warren Buffett’s Media Diet

Warren Buffett, perhaps the most successful investor in history, famously spends about 80% of his working day reading. But what he reads is telling. He reads company annual reports, 10-K filings, industry publications, and newspapers — not for the daily market coverage, but for business and economic insights. He reads broadly about industries, competitive dynamics, and long-term trends.

What Buffett does not do is watch market tickers. He has said repeatedly that he does not have a stock ticker in his office. He has quipped that if the stock market closed for ten years, he would be perfectly comfortable holding the businesses he owns. “I never attempt to make money on the stock market,” Buffett has said. “I buy on the assumption that they could close the market the next day and not reopen it for five years.”

Buffett’s media philosophy can be summarized in another of his famous observations: “The stock market is a device for transferring money from the impatient to the patient.” The daily news cycle is the primary engine of impatience. Every urgent headline, every “experts warn” story, every market flash is designed to make you feel that you need to act now. Buffett’s entire career is a testament to the power of ignoring that impulse.

John Bogle’s “Don’t Look” Philosophy

John Bogle, founder of Vanguard and the father of index fund investing, was even more explicit in his advice to ignore daily market news. “Don’t look at your portfolio” was one of his most frequent recommendations. Bogle argued that frequent portfolio monitoring served no constructive purpose for long-term investors and only increased the probability of emotional decision-making.

Bogle practiced what he preached. He did not check stock prices daily, did not watch financial television, and actively discouraged his investors from doing so. His reasoning was characteristically straightforward: if you have a sound investment plan based on broad diversification and low costs, daily market information is not just useless — it is harmful. It tempts you to deviate from a plan that, if followed consistently, will almost certainly deliver satisfactory long-term results.

“The idea that a bell rings to signal when investors should get into or out of the market is simply not credible,” Bogle wrote. “After nearly 50 years in this business, I do not know of anybody who has done it successfully and consistently.”

Other Legendary Investors Who Tune Out

Peter Lynch, who generated 29% average annual returns during his tenure managing the Magellan Fund, warned investors against trying to predict short-term market movements. “Far more money has been lost by investors preparing for corrections, or trying to anticipate corrections, than has been lost in corrections themselves,” he famously stated.

Charlie Munger, Buffett’s long-time partner, was characteristically blunt: “The big money is not in the buying or the selling, but in the waiting.” The daily news cycle is the enemy of waiting. It constantly whispers that you should be doing something — buying, selling, adjusting, reacting. The great investors understood that doing nothing, most of the time, is the optimal strategy.

Howard Marks, co-founder of Oaktree Capital Management and one of the most respected investors alive, writes in his memos that most of what passes for market analysis is simply noise. He emphasizes that investment success comes from understanding where you are in economic and market cycles — a perspective that requires months and years of data, not minutes and hours of news.

Building Your Information Diet

Just as a nutritionist would help you build a healthy eating plan by identifying which foods nourish you and which ones are empty calories, you need an information diet that delivers genuine insight without the toxic side effects of constant news consumption. The goal is not total ignorance — it is intentional, structured, minimal exposure to the information that actually matters.

The Weekly Review: Replacing Daily Monitoring

Instead of checking the market daily (or multiple times daily, as many investors admit to doing), shift to a single weekly review. Set aside 30-60 minutes each weekend to review the week’s developments. This approach offers several advantages.

First, a weekly cadence naturally filters out noise. Monday’s panic is often forgotten by Friday. The “crisis” that dominated headlines on Tuesday may have resolved itself by Thursday. By looking at the week as a whole, you see the net result without having been dragged through every intermediate emotional twist.

Second, weekly reviews encourage perspective. A 2% daily decline feels catastrophic when you experience it in real-time. When you see it as part of a week that ended down 0.5%, it feels manageable. When you see it as part of a quarter that is up 3%, it feels insignificant. Frequency of observation directly shapes your emotional response to the same underlying reality.

Third, weekly reviews prevent impulsive action. Even if you feel a strong urge to sell during your Saturday morning review, the market is closed. By Monday morning, the urge has often passed. This built-in cooling period is enormously valuable, and it is something daily monitoring never provides.

Here is what a productive weekly review looks like:

Total time: 30-45 minutes per week. Compare this to the hours per day many investors spend consuming financial news, and the efficiency gain is enormous — both in time saved and in emotional energy preserved.

The Quarterly Deep Dive

Four times per year, schedule a more thorough review of your portfolio and the broader market environment. This is your opportunity to assess whether your investment thesis for each holding is still intact, whether your asset allocation has drifted from your targets, and whether any significant structural changes require adjustments to your strategy.

A quarterly deep dive should include:

Portfolio performance review. How has your overall portfolio performed relative to your benchmark? Not to judge yourself, but to ensure your strategy is functioning as expected. If you own an S&P 500 index fund and it is significantly underperforming the S&P 500, something is wrong. If it is tracking closely, everything is working.

Asset allocation check. Has market movement caused your allocation to drift? If your target is 80% stocks and 20% bonds, and stocks have risen significantly, you might be at 87/13. This is the time to rebalance — not because you are predicting a downturn, but because rebalancing is a disciplined way to sell high and buy low automatically.

Earnings review for individual holdings. If you own individual stocks, the quarterly review is when you read through their most recent earnings reports. Look at revenue growth, margin trends, cash flow, and management commentary about the future. Is the business performing as you expected when you bought it? If not, is the underperformance temporary or structural?

Macro environment assessment. Where are interest rates headed? What is the inflation trend? How is the labor market? These factors affect broad market valuation and can inform your allocation decisions. But you need a quarterly perspective, not a daily one.

The Notification Detox

One of the most impactful changes you can make is turning off all financial push notifications on your phone. Every brokerage app, financial news app, and market data service wants to send you alerts. These notifications are designed to pull you back into the app, where you will see ads, make trades (generating commission or payment-for-order-flow revenue), and consume content that keeps you engaged.

Turn them all off. Every single one. You do not need to know the moment the Dow drops 300 points. You do not need a push notification when a stock you own moves 3%. You do not need breaking news alerts about GDP data. None of this information requires immediate action, and the notification itself triggers exactly the kind of emotional, impulsive response that destroys returns.

If something truly catastrophic happens — a once-in-a-decade event like a financial crisis or a pandemic — you will hear about it through normal channels. It will be on the regular news. People will be talking about it. You will not miss it. But you also will not be tempted to react to the 999 non-events that the notification system would have pushed to you along the way.

Curating Your Information Sources

Quality matters more than quantity. Replace your feed of multiple real-time news sources with a small number of high-quality, analytically oriented publications that emphasize long-term thinking over daily reactions.

Worth reading: Annual shareholder letters from companies you own or admire (Berkshire Hathaway’s is the gold standard). Quarterly or annual publications like Barron’s, The Economist, or the Financial Times weekend edition. Investment books that develop your analytical framework. Quarterly earnings reports of companies you hold.

Worth avoiding: Real-time market tickers. Financial television (CNBC, Bloomberg TV, Fox Business). Social media “finfluencers.” Market timing newsletters. Day-trading subreddits. Any source that publishes multiple “urgent” stories per day.

The distinction is between sources that help you think better and sources that make you feel like you need to act right now. The former improve your returns. The latter destroy them.

The Daily Checker vs. the Quarterly Checker

Let us make this concrete with a comparison of two hypothetical investors with identical starting conditions, investment selections, and time horizons — differing only in their news consumption and portfolio monitoring habits.

Two Investors, One Portfolio

Investor A: The Daily Checker. Sarah checks her portfolio every morning before work and again in the evening. She watches CNBC during lunch. She has push notifications enabled for all her holdings. She reads three financial news sites daily and follows several market commentators on social media.

Investor B: The Quarterly Checker. Michael reviews his portfolio once per quarter. He reads one weekly market summary on Saturday mornings. He has no financial push notifications. He reads his companies’ earnings reports four times per year. He spends the time Sarah spends on financial news reading books, exercising, and spending time with his family.

Both start with $100,000 invested in a diversified portfolio of quality stocks and index funds on January 1, 2006. Let us trace their likely behavioral paths over the next 20 years, through the Global Financial Crisis, the recovery, the COVID crash, and the subsequent bull market.

The 2008-2009 Financial Crisis

Sarah (Daily Checker): As Bear Stearns collapses in March 2008, Sarah watches in real-time. She reduces her stock allocation from 80% to 60%. When Lehman Brothers fails in September, she is glued to CNBC, watching the Dow drop 777 points in a single day. She panics and sells everything, moving to 100% cash in October 2008, locking in a 40% loss. She watches the market continue to fall (confirming her decision in her mind) but also watches it recover. She cannot bring herself to buy back in until the market has recovered roughly 50% from its bottom in mid-2010. Net result: she captures most of the losses and misses most of the recovery.

Michael (Quarterly Checker): In his Q1 2008 review, Michael notes the market is down and some headlines are concerning. His allocation has drifted slightly; he rebalances. In his Q3 2008 review, the market is down significantly. He is uncomfortable but remembers his plan. He rebalances again, actually buying more stocks at lower prices. In his Q1 2009 review, the market is near its bottom. He maintains his allocation. By Q4 2009, the recovery is underway, and his portfolio — which was continuously invested and rebalanced — is recovering strongly. Net result: he experiences the full drawdown on paper but captures the full recovery.

The COVID-19 Crash (March 2020)

Sarah: She watches the market fall 34% in 23 trading days. She sees death toll counters on television. She reads articles comparing this to the Great Depression. She sells on March 18, near the bottom. The market recovers almost as quickly as it fell, reaching new highs by August. Sarah buys back in September, having missed a 50% rally from the bottom.

Michael: He does not check his portfolio during March. In his Q1 2020 review in April, he sees a significant decline but also notes the market is already recovering. He rebalances, buying more stock at still-depressed prices. By his Q2 review, his portfolio is nearly back to even. By year-end, he is at new highs.

The Twenty-Year Result

The numbers in this comparison are illustrative but grounded in the research. The DALBAR data consistently shows a 2-3 percentage point annual gap between average investor returns and market returns, and the Barber and Odean research shows even larger gaps for the most active traders. A $258,000 difference on a $100,000 investment over 20 years is not an exaggeration — it is arguably conservative.

And consider the time difference. Sarah spent approximately 7,000 hours — the equivalent of three and a half years of full-time work — consuming financial news over two decades. Michael spent about 200 hours. Sarah’s 6,800 additional hours of financial news consumption did not just fail to help — it actively cost her more than a quarter of a million dollars. She would have been better off in every measurable way if she had simply turned off the television.

A Practical Media Consumption Schedule

If you are currently a daily news consumer, going cold turkey might feel impossible. Here is a gradual transition plan:

Week 1-2: Reduce to once daily. Check the market once per day, at the close. Remove all push notifications. Delete financial apps from your phone’s home screen. Stop watching financial television during market hours.

Week 3-4: Move to every other day. Check the market on Monday, Wednesday, and Friday evenings. You will quickly notice that Tuesday and Thursday pass without incident. Nothing happened that you needed to respond to.

Month 2: Shift to weekly. Schedule your 30-45 minute weekly review on Saturday morning. During the week, give yourself permission to not know what the market is doing. This is the hardest transition, but it is also where the benefits start to compound.

Month 3 and beyond: Settle into your rhythm. Weekly reviews become routine. Quarterly deep dives are thorough and productive. You find yourself making fewer investment decisions, but the ones you make are calmer, more rational, and more aligned with your long-term goals.

How to Stay Informed Without Overreacting

The fear that drives news consumption is often the fear of missing something important. What if a recession hits and I do not know? What if a company I own commits fraud? What if there is a policy change that affects my investments? These are legitimate concerns, and the answer is not to bury your head in the sand.

The answer is to have a system. Here is how to stay appropriately informed without falling into the daily news trap:

Subscribe to a single, high-quality weekly digest. Barron’s, The Economist, or a reputable financial newsletter that provides weekly summaries. These publications curate the week’s events, filtering signal from noise for you. You get the essential information in a fraction of the time.

Set calendar reminders for known events. Fed meetings are scheduled a year in advance. Earnings dates for your holdings are announced well ahead of time. CPI and jobs reports are released on a predictable schedule. Put these on your calendar and check the results when they come out. You do not need to watch 250 hours of financial television to catch 20 events per year.

Have a trusted friend or advisor as a circuit breaker. If you feel compelled to make a significant portfolio change, talk to someone first. A 24-hour rule — where you wait a full day before acting on any impulse — is one of the most effective behavioral guardrails an investor can implement. If the trade still makes sense the next day, it probably has some merit. If the urgency has faded, it was probably an emotional reaction to noise.

Distinguish between “interesting” and “actionable.” Most financial news is interesting in the way a soap opera is interesting — it provides drama and narrative. Very little of it is actionable, meaning it should prompt a change in your investment strategy. Train yourself to notice the difference. “The Fed raised rates by 25 basis points” may be actionable for your allocation decisions. “Markets tumble on fears of global slowdown” is not.

Conclusion: The Quiet Investor’s Edge

We live in an era of unprecedented information access. Every data point, every price movement, every analyst opinion, every economic indicator is available at our fingertips, in real-time, 24 hours a day. The financial media industry has spent billions of dollars building an infrastructure designed to keep us watching, clicking, and reacting. And the evidence is overwhelming that this infrastructure is making us poorer.

The quiet investor — the one who checks in quarterly, reads selectively, ignores the daily noise, and sticks to a long-term plan — is not less informed. They are better informed, because they focus their limited attention on the small amount of information that actually matters. They are not less engaged. They are more effectively engaged, because they direct their energy toward analysis and planning rather than reaction and anxiety.

The research is clear. The most active, most news-consuming, most frequently-checking investors consistently earn the worst returns. The least active, least news-consumed, least frequently-checking investors consistently earn the best returns. This is not because passive investors are lucky. It is because they avoid the behavioral traps that the daily news cycle sets for them.

If there is one change you make after reading this article, let it be this: turn off your financial push notifications, delete the market apps from your phone’s home screen, and schedule a weekly 30-minute review on Saturday mornings. Within a month, you will notice that the anxiety is gone. Within a year, you will notice that your decision-making has improved. Within a decade, the compounding effect of those better decisions may be worth hundreds of thousands of dollars.

The financial news industry will survive without your attention. Your portfolio, however, will almost certainly thrive because of it. Sometimes the best investment decision is the one you do not make — and the best financial news is the news you never read.

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