Hours before American and Israeli missiles rained down on Iran, killing the country’s leadership, a Polymarket trader loaded up on bets that Ayatollah Ali Khamenei would be “out as Supreme Leader of ...

Trading volumes for leveraged funds and options saw higher compound annual growth rates between 2020 and 2025 than stocks, according to a new report shared exclusively with CNBC. The report ...

Before joining Investopedia, David Marino-Nachison was an editor at The Wall Street Journal focused mainly on daily markets and investing news. He also worked on The Journal’s publishing desk; as a ...

The dollar held gains on Tuesday as markets awaited signals, expected later this week, about the potential timing of rate cuts by the Federal Reserve. The yen trimmed losses from a day earlier when ...

The Commodity Futures Trading Commission (CFTC) is stepping in to stop what it calls an “onslaught” of state-level regulation of prediction markets. CFTC Chairman Michael Selig said Tuesday in a video ...

BlackRock’s co-head of global trading, Jatin Vara, is departing the firm to embark on a new chapter after 27 years at the asset management giant. Vara stepped up to his most recent role following ...

In December, Howard Marks published an investment memo titled, “Is it a bubble?” that expressed some of his skepticism and reservations about artificial intelligence and the stock-market boom it had ...

NEW YORK (AP) — The Trump administration is throwing its support behind the prediction market operators Kalshi and Polymarket in a critical legal battle between the growing prediction market industry ...

Shares of eToro (ETOR) rose 14% on Tuesday after the company reported its strongest quarter of 2025, defying a broader downturn in crypto trading that has weighed on competitors like Robinhood (HOOD) ...

Platforms that let you bet on the outcomes of future events have seen explosive growth recently. Economics correspondent Paul Solman explains how these prediction markets work and why they’re so ...

ORLANDO, Florida, Feb 10 (Reuters) - The Dow Jones Industrials index crept up to a new high on Tuesday but other U.S. indices fell and Treasury yields slid, after unexpectedly soft U.S. retail sales ...

The global Galaxy S26+ has appeared on Geekbench, confirming that Samsung’s Exynos 2600 chip will power the device in several markets, while the Snapdragon 8 Elite Gen 5 is still expected in regions ...