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.
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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.
Articles by Naomi Bergman
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.
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…