The ‘80s comedy depicts an insider trading scheme that spurred new regulation. How it will apply to prediction markets is still unsettled.

Commodity Futures Trading Commission chairman Michael Selig wants America to be the hub for prediction markets. He also wants the industry to know he is watching every trade. In a sit-down interview with NYNext at CFTC headquarters in Washington this week,

Prediction markets allow consumers to trade event contracts tied to real-world outcomes, from elections to economic data and even sports. It should be said that event contracts function very differently from sports or

Why are US stock market futures up now, and will Dow Jones, S&P 500 and Nasdaq stay in green or turn red again? US futures moved slightly higher as investors tracked tensions between Donald Trump and Iran,

(Editor’s note: The future prices of benchmark tracking ETFs, the lede, the economic data and the headline were updated in the story.) U.S. stocks fell on Thursday, following Wednesday’s sharp rebound.

The timing of the earlier volume spikes — across both equities and crude — caught the attention of traders.

Crude futures settled lower in cautious trading as the U.S. and Iran plan weekend talks that are seen as crucial to the success of the cease-fire and reopening of the Strait of Hormuz.

Cattle futures paused Wednesday and consolidated under some new highs for the move scored on Tuesday when the cattle futures were working in higher cash trade. Brad Kooima of Kooima Kooima Varilek says futures are getting overbought and ran into another ...