Finance News
December 2025 payrolls: a soft close to a soft year
The January 9, 2026 Employment Situation showed December payrolls up roughly 50,000 — the first print of a year the benchmark process would soon cut down…
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Naomi Bergman
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Markets
Implied volatility is a price, realized volatility is a measurement
The two numbers answer different questions, and the measurable gap between them is a premium, not a forecast.