Finance News
SEC draft strategic plan elevates digital assets to a stated priority
The FY2026-2030 plan published June 2, 2026 names digital-asset rulemaking among the agency's top priorities — a planning document, with a planning document's…
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Naomi Bergman
Naomi Bergman covers the systems that move money, and the small design decisions inside them that quietly decide who gets served. She explains payment rails and credit scoring, covers federal rulemaking and the national record, and reads markets from release to close.
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Markets
What actually happens to a stock when its index adds it?
Inclusion effects are measurable around the announcement and the effective date — and the two windows tell different stories.
Finance News
April FOMC: four dissents, and the fight is over one word
The April 29, 2026 statement held rates with four dissents — three against retaining the easing-bias clause, as energy prices moved into the inflation sentence.
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…
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.