ECB publishes indicative operational calendars for 2027

While SpaceX is due to join the Nasdaq-100 on Tuesday, it won’t become part of the S&P 500 for at least another year — likely furthering the volatility spread between those two indexes.

Interview with Isabel Schnabel, Member of the Executive Board of the ECB, conducted by Mark Schieritz and Kolja Rudzio on 19 June 2026 25 June 2026 There is now a ceasefire in the Middle East, and oil prices have fallen. What does this mean for the economy in Europe, and in Germany in particular? This…

Bill Archer (R-TX), who as Chairman of the House Ways and Means Committee guided some of the most consequential conservative policy wins of the 1990s, passed away on the Fourth of July. I was honored to serve on Chairman Archer’s committee staff from 1995 through 2000. On first taking his longtime committee’s gavel in January 1995,…

The week is kicking off with fresh spikes for oil prices after President Donald Trump reimposed the naval blockage on the Strait of Hormuz.

This paper was prepared for a conference on “The Forces Shaping America’s Fiscal Future” in June 2026. The conference was organized by the Marriner S. Eccles Institute for Economics and Quantitative Analysis at the University of Utah, the Urban-Brookings Tax Policy Center, and the Hutchins Center on Fiscal and Monetary Policy at the Brookings Institution….

After its dramatic plunge, silver may be experiencing a huge disconnect between its traded value and its importance as a critical material.