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.

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.