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Background and plain-language explainers for reading the market
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What is the FOMC — why markets swing at dawn
A plain-language primer on the Fed's FOMC — its schedule, the dot plot, and how the minutes move markets.
GuideHow to read a daily briefing in 10 minutes
A simple reading order for the morning flood of market news — what to read first and what you can skim.
DataFree and public channels for market data
From Korea's public data portal to Yahoo-based open source — a use-case map of free data sources anyone can access.
ExplainerReading a sector heatmap — a day in colors
How the red/green grid of a sector heatmap works, and how to read the market's temperature at a glance.