Finance News
March FOMC: a hold, one dissent, and a new sentence about the Middle East
The March 18, 2026 statement kept the range at 3.50 to 3.75 percent, trimmed dissents to one — and added language on geopolitical developments worth reading…
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Naomi Bergman
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Markets
Your rolling correlation depends on the window you chose
Change the window from 60 days to 250 and the same two assets can tell opposite stories — here is how to test it.
Finance News
Five days late, half a million jobs lighter: the January employment report lands
Delayed by the shutdown, the February 11 release reported 130,000 January jobs, a 4.3 percent unemployment rate — and benchmark revisions that cut 2025 hiring…
Markets
When do stock circuit breakers actually halt trading?
The thresholds are precise — 7, 13 and 20 percent on the S&P 500 against the prior close — and so are their limits.
Markets
How is market liquidity actually measured?
Spread, depth and price impact capture different parts of the same question, and each fails in its own way.