We have a new frontrunner for 2026’s most obvious observation: That wagering large amounts of money on the outcome of elections or sports contests on prediction markets such as Kalshi is indeed ...

Executives at the biggest private-credit lenders have sought to play down an exodus of investor money from their funds, making carefully worded television appearances to calm jitters about the sector.

Higher oil prices and lower stock prices are an almost predictable outcome of the geopolitical conflict in the Middle East. History shows that most big market events revert to the mean over time. Wall ...

The Dow dropped again on Thursday ahead of another inflation report because Wall Street sees $100 oil prices as a big risk to future rate cuts. The Dow Jones Industrial Average fell 731 points, or 1.5 ...

The Commodity Futures Trading Commission issued new guidance for prediction markets, asking exchanges to engage with regulators before opening certain markets that might be vulnerable to manipulation ...

Political betting—once a niche corner of financial trading—has exploded into the national sphere as federal regulators begin to ease some restrictions on prediction markets. Prediction markets allow ...

Sign up for the daily CJR newsletter. By the time the US attacked Iran, on February 28, half a billion dollars had been wagered on Polymarket, one of the world’s ...

War has broken out and no one knows when it will end. Energy costs are shooting up—and with them investors’ expectations of inflation around the world. Traders are rapidly reassessing how hawkish ...

Oil prices reached heights not seen since the aftermath of Russia’s 2022 invasion of Ukraine before falling back, as President Donald Trump sent mixed signals about his Iran plans. The price for a ...

Bond options traders are increasingly betting that the Federal Reserve will forgo any rate cuts this year, as an intensifying conflict in the Middle East boosts oil prices and threatens to push up ...

A few hours before Donald Trump gave his State of the Union address, Republican sources told the PBS correspondent Lisa Desjardins that the speech would break records. The president would speak for ...

March 3 (Reuters) - The war in Iran and the resulting surge in energy prices will impact emerging markets well beyond inflation to broader pressures on external balances, currencies and capital flows, ...