(This is The Best Stocks in the Market , brought to you by Josh Brown and Sean Russo of Ritholtz Wealth Management.) Josh — "There are three kinds of lies," Mark Twain once apocryphally said. "Lies, Damned Lies, and Statistics." Lying with statistics, or, at least, misleading or persuading with them, is a Wall Street specialty since the first trades went off beneath the Buttonwood tree. Here's a recent example: we could easily make the case for or against the S & P 500 energy sector being a "good investment" based on when we choose to start the chart from. Yes, there are statistics. But if we're choosing the statistics, we can tell the story we want to tell with them. Sean will show you how this heuristic applies to searching for the Best Stocks in the Market, looking top-down by sector. E

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