📄️ Numbers in headlines overview
Decode financial numbers: learn basis points, percentages, YoY, and MoM metrics that shape market headlines and investment decisions.
📄️ Basis points (bps) explained
Decode basis points in financial news: learn how Fed rate changes, bond yields, and credit spreads use bps for precise measurement.
📄️ Percent vs percentage difference
Master the distinction: percentage points vs percentage changes in financial headlines. Learn when 5% is huge and when it's noise.
📄️ Year-over-year (YoY) explained
Understand year-over-year metrics in financial news: learn why YoY strips out seasonality and reveals true business growth.
📄️ Month-over-month (MoM) explained
Decode month-over-month metrics: learn why MoM shows volatility and momentum, and when it matters more than year-over-year data.
📄️ QoQ Explained
Learn what quarter-over-quarter means in financial news. Understand QoQ growth rates, why companies use them, and how to spot misleading comparisons.
📄️ Annualized Rates
Understand annualized rates in financial news. Learn how economists extrapolate monthly or quarterly data to annual figures and why annualization can mislead.
📄️ Trailing vs Forward
Understand the difference between trailing and forward financial metrics. Learn why companies prefer forward multiples and how backward-looking data tells a different story.
📄️ CAGR Explained
Understand CAGR (compound annual growth rate). Learn when it's useful, how it smooths volatility, and when CAGR headlines can mislead.
📄️ Billion vs Million
Learn how 'billion' and 'million' are used—and misused—in financial headlines. Understand scale, recognize when journalists conflate the two, and spot exaggerated claims.
📄️ Record numbers in context
Learn why 'record profits' and 'record revenues' headlines mislead without context—and how to decode them properly.
📄️ Percentage vs absolute change
Learn why percentages and absolute numbers tell different stories—and how financial headlines weaponize both to mislead you.
📄️ Rolling averages in news
Understand how rolling averages smooth data and why headlines cherry-pick windows to change the story.
📄️ Moving averages in news
Learn how moving averages smooth data and why financial news uses them to claim trends that don't exist.
📄️ Seasonal adjustment in news
Learn why comparing unadjusted numbers is misleading—and how headlines exploit seasonal data to create false trends.
📄️ Real vs nominal numbers
Learn why real and nominal numbers tell different stories in financial news—and how inflation reshapes what 'growth' actually means.
📄️ P/E ratio in headlines
Master the price-to-earnings ratio—what it means, why it matters, and how news outlets use it to tell stories about market value and investor sentiment.
📄️ Yield vs return
Distinguish yield from return in financial news—why they're different, why headlines confuse them, and how to read income-focused headlines accurately.
📄️ Revenue vs earnings
Understand why revenue and earnings tell completely different stories—and why headlines often emphasize the larger, less meaningful number.
📄️ Converting news numbers quickly
Learn quick mental math tricks to convert between billions, percentages, and basis points—so you can fact-check financial headlines in real time.