CME Group (NasdaqGS:CME) took part in a White House crypto summit alongside major financial institutions, underscoring its role in US digital asset policy discussions. The company featured in talks on regulatory frameworks for crypto markets, highlighting its engagement beyond traditional futures and options. At a recent CFTC meeting, CME Group's CEO publicly challenged a prediction market competitor, focusing on market integrity and regulatory standards. The twin events put CME Group at the...

CME Group Chairman Terry Duffy and Kalshi co-founder Luana Lopes Lara traded barbs during a CFTC meeting over prediction markets, manipulation, and regulatory standards.

A Commodity Futures Trading Commission Innovation Advisory Committee meeting got heated Thursday, with some members raising concerns that prediction-market platforms could be susceptible to insider trading and expressing worry over markets listed. Terry Duffy, chief executive of exchange operator CME Group, said that some markets being listed could be manipulated.

CME CEO Terry Duffy says the CFTC waves through manipulable prediction markets. Chairman Selig called the claim fake news.

Don Wilson, founder of high-speed trading giant DRW, said Thursday that he was encouraging the Commodity Futures Trading Commission to approve perpetual futures contracts on a wide range of products, including those linked to single stocks. Speaking at the CFTC Innovation Advisory Committee’s inaugural meeting, Wilson said he views perpetual futures contracts as “a very useful risk-management tool.” Perpetual futures contracts, also known as perps, are a type of derivative that never expires and trades 24/7.

The premium rests on a three-year growth average, while the most recent reported quarter went the other way.

Crude oil prices rose to nearly a one-month high on Thursday morning after President Donald Trump announced the "most crushing economic operation ever undertaken," regarding Iran, in a Wednesday evening Truth Social post. The Dow industrials, S&P 500 and Nasdaq all opened lower as Treasury yields rebounded. Beyond the blockade of Iran's Persian Gulf ports, Trump vowed harsh consequences for countries that provide "any type of lifeline to Iran" via government entities, financial institutions, airports, front companies and oil smuggling.

Regulators took initial steps to allow investors to trade AI compute futures based on the prices of GPUs sold by the likes of Nvidia, TSMC and Broadcom.

President Donald Trump said US regulators are working to bring Hyperliquid, a fast-growing crypto platform, into the country, offering one of the clearest signals yet that the White House wants to pull a major piece of the industry’s offshore market infrastructure onshore.

First reported by Politico on August 13 and confirmed by CoinDesk on August 14, the August 19, 2026, White House crypto summit at the Eisenhower Executive Office Building was not a photo opportunity; it was an operational agenda. By shifting the focus from the broad, aspirational rhetoric of the March 2025 summit to the granular […]

Trump met Leaders of tech and crypto firms, including Coinbase and Ripple, on Wednesday. It’s the next move for the executives after an industry-friendly bill stalled.

Markets turned south again Wednesday as surging yields and geopolitical fears rattled investors, but Wall Street analysts spotted opportunity and danger in names like Baidu, Klarna, Honeywell Aerospace, and Dollar Tree that traders need to see before the open.

Kalshi filed with the CFTC to launch stock index and copper perpetuals, extending crypto's leverage model into equities.

President Trump may attend a White House meeting of crypto, prediction market leaders in lieu of Clarity Act. CFTC event scheduled.

By Lawrence White LONDON, Aug 17 (Reuters) - Global shares edged higher and the dollar slipped towards two-month lows on Monday after a run of soft U.S. economic data, including an unexpected drop in

Stocks edged back from records Friday, with investors weighing weaker-than-anticipated economic data against an earnings season that has defied expectations. Stocks initially opened higher Friday morning as investors interpreted unexpected weakness in consumer spending and sentiment as further evidence that the Federal Reserve won’t raise interest rates at its September meeting. Coming on the heels of softer inflation data and a cooling labor market, the figures reinforced bets that the central bank will stand pat on rates.

The billionaire investor’s hedge fund also established a sizable position in CME Group while trimming Restaurant Brands International.

Baupost is leaning harder into a costly AI buildout

These new futures contracts would allow investors to hedge and speculate on the cost of renting chips that machines need to train and run AI models.

CME Group has recently outlined a wave of product launches, including index-based Hockey futures tied to NHL statistics, Compute futures linked to GPU rental indexes with Silicon Data, expanded 24/7 trading for 100-Ounce Silver futures, new E-nano equity index futures, and growing access to Spot-Quoted futures through TradeStation and enhanced market data via dxFeed. Together, these initiatives extend CME Group’s reach into AI infrastructure, sports performance indexes, and retail-friendly...

Wall Street is racing to turn raw compute power into a tradable asset class, but some investors warn that even the most ambitious financing package on record may leave the AI industry dangerously short of what it needs.

Oil futures stumbled Thursday as two key reports point to weaker global demand for oil in 2026. CME Group data shows U.S. crude oil prices are off morning lows but down 1.7% to $81.88 a barrel in afternoon action. Crude oil prices bounced back over the past week as faith in a Strait of Hormuz deal waned.

CME Group Inc. (NASDAQ:CME) said Tuesday it will launch AI compute futures on Oct. 5, pending regulatory review, with contracts tracking monthly rental prices for NVIDIA Corp. (NASDAQ:NVDA) H100 and B200 chips. The exchange wants to turn compute into a...

CME Group has underperformed the broader market over the past year, but analysts are cautiously optimistic about the stock’s prospects.

U.S. stock futures ticked higher as traders adjust to predictions that the Federal Reserve won’t raise rates imminently.

By Satoshi Sugiyama TOKYO, Aug 13 (Reuters) - Asian stocks climbed on Thursday as tame U.S. inflation data cooled expectations of a Federal Reserve rate hike next month, while oil slipped as focus

By Kevin Buckland TOKYO, Aug 13 (Reuters) - The dollar's advance stalled on Thursday after an overall benign U.S. inflation reading overnight spurred traders to pare back bets for a near-term Federal

CME stock is up 10% over the past month.

CME Group (NasdaqGS:CME) is partnering with Silicon Data to launch Compute futures that allow businesses and investors to manage exposure to AI compute costs. The company is expanding 24/7 trading access to silver futures after the earlier rollout of continuous gold trading. CME is preparing to introduce the world's first index-based Hockey futures tied to sports data and risk management trends. These moves show how CME Group is tying core market infrastructure to fast growing themes in AI,...

There's an effort underway to create a futures market for AI compute — the processing capacity needed to train and run AI models — akin to how investors buy and sell commodities like oil or grain.

StoneX posted sharp Q3 earnings growth as R.J. O'Brien synergies reached $38M, with further gains expected despite retail weakness and rising costs.

StoneX pairs strong earnings growth and expanding scale with a premium valuation, leaving investors to weigh momentum against margin and credit risks.

StoneX shares fell 14% in a week despite strong Q3 earnings growth, as valuation, retail weakness and rate sensitivity temper the buying case.

Higher energy prices are reigniting inflation concerns, pushing global government bond yields upward. The benchmark 10-year Treasury yield rose to 4.729% this morning, according to Tradeweb, within striking of its year-to-date closing peak of 4.

U.S. hedge funds are starting to turn bullish on Bitcoin (CRYPTO: $BTC).

The odds are pretty good that higher rates are ahead. But some stocks can still flourish.

During the lightning round on the August 5 episode of CNBC’s Mad Money, host Jim Cramer responded to a caller asking about CME Group Inc. (NASDAQ:CME). He commented: CME Group is very good. I’ve got to tell you, I like Cboe, too. I’ve always liked the companies that are involved with trading because they have […]

CME Group (CME) has put product expansion and client reach in focus, with a fresh dividend decision and new smaller-sized futures contracts drawing investor attention to how the stock reflects these business moves. See our latest analysis for CME Group. CME Group’s share price has been choppy in recent months, with the stock down over the year to date despite an 8.47% 1 month share price return, while multi year total shareholder returns remain firmly positive. If these product launches have...

The S&P 500 closed at a record Friday after a weak jobs report eased investors’ fears of an interest-rate hike in September. The U.S. economy lost 23,000 jobs in July, an unexpected decline compared with the 83,000 job gains estimated by economists. The unemployment rate ticked lower to 4.1% as more Americans stepped back from the labor market entirely.

CME Group stock is coming off a solid 56.5% gain over the past five years, yet the latest valuation checks suggest it is not a clear bargain at its recent US$264.32 close. The intrinsic value estimate from the Excess Returns model points to a price that is broadly in line with the current market level, while earnings multiples lean toward the view that the shares trade at a premium. Over five years, CME Group has returned 56.5%, which puts recent short term softness into context and...

Gold prices were on track for their largest weekly gain since January as investors await key U.S. jobs data later on Friday for more cues on the interest-rate outlook.

U.S. stocks jumped after the July jobs report came in much cooler than expected, with the U.S. economy losing 23,000 jobs last month.

U.S. stocks jumped after the July jobs report came in much cooler than expected, with the U.S. economy losing 23,000 jobs last month.

Friday’s weaker-than-expected jobs report has flipped the market-based odds of whether the Federal Reserve raises interest rate in September. Interest-rate futures now show a 56% chance that the Fed stays on hold at its next meeting and a 44% chance of a rate hike, according to CME Group data.

Ransom-seeking hackers who use phone calls to compromise their victims targeted dozens of prominent U.S. financial institutions and other businesses over the past month, according to Google and internet ‌intelligence data reviewed by Reuters. The data shows the hackers devised websites aimed at stealing passwords from employees of private equity firms ‌and companies including Blackstone, Bridgewater Associates, Apollo Global Management, Bain Capital, KKR, TPG, CME Group and Moody's, as well as a host of financial companies and other businesses.

Not really, but CME Group the granddaddy of derivatives exchanges, would like to keep it respectable. CME provides many products needed for the normal functioning of financial markets. Its business has also gotten a big lift from the explosion in retail options trading and the public’s embrace of leveraged and options income funds.

Flutter Entertainment, the world’s biggest betting company, will have many questions to answer regarding its prediction market investments, international growth, and plans for the coming NFL season when it reports second-quarter results before the market open Wednesday. Flutter has seen its shares drop 52% since the beginning of the year as growth dries up in the U.S. market, and the company navigates the complexities of prediction markets, which present both threats and opportunities. Wall Street predicts full-year revenue guidance to come in at $18.21 billion—a slight decline from the $18.31 billion guidance Flutter provided last quarter.

Freeport-McMoRan, Teck Resources and the United States Copper Index Fund ETF were among copper plays flashing buy points on Tuesday. Rare earth stocks also were lighting up, some with double-digit percentage gains. The bullish moves in industrial metals comes as oil prices retreat on reported progress toward a deal to reopen the Strait of Hormuz, a positive for global growth at a time that the AI infrastructure buildout has U.S. nonresidential construction humming.

CME Group leads Coinbase on valuation, price gains and near-term growth, even as both expand across crypto and global trading markets.

Chevron earnings more than tripled, easily beating views for the Dow Jones energy giant. Exxon Mobil earnings soared but fell short.