Investingexplainer
Treasury bill discount rate vs. investment rate: why they differ
Compare Treasury bill rate labels through their percentage bases and day-count conventions, using Treasury’s published purchase price and maturity payment.
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Investing
Investment mechanics, risks and useful comparisons for curious individual investors. The focus is on how an instrument or index is constructed, which risks remain and which comparison basis makes two reported returns meaningful.
Inflationexplainer
Why TIPS can lose value even when inflation rises
TIPS principal adjusts with inflation, but market prices also respond to real yields. Understand the difference between holding to maturity and selling early.
Investingexplainer
Equal-weight vs. market-cap-weighted indexes: what changes?
The same stocks can produce different index results. Compare weighting rules, quarterly resets, concentration and the limits of equal weighting.
Inflationbrief
August inflation accelerated monthly as annual core inflation slowed
Core excludes food and energy, but prominent inflation-linked benefits and TIPS use all-items measures.
