Finance News
July FOMC holds again — this time with three members voting to raise
The 9-3 vote on July 29, 2026 kept the range at 3.50 to 3.75 percent, the year's first hawkish dissents arriving after a unanimous June.
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Naomi Bergman
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Finance News
AI-washing is not a model failure: what the SEC's enforcement actually measured
The SEC's first AI-washing settlements penalized false marketing about artificial intelligence, not a model's forecasting accuracy — a distinction that matters…
Markets
Anatomy of a bid-ask spread: where the pennies go
A spread decomposes into processing cost, inventory risk and adverse selection — and each component behaves differently when markets speed up.
Finance News
CPI cools to 3.5 percent in June, from 4.2 in May
The 12-month rate fell sharply on a 0.1 percent monthly print — energy mechanics and base effects deserve the credit before narratives do.
Markets
What does trading volume measure, and what doesn't it tell you?
Volume counts transactions, not conviction — and the modern tape's count includes flows that carry no opinion at all.