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Hotter core inflation and rising energy costs have pushed markets toward a quarter-point Fed increase on September 16.

Futures imply a near-certain quarter-point increase, leaving Kevin Warsh to balance inflation, bond-market pressure and Donald Trump’s demands.

The prediction-market operator is seeking approval for leveraged, never-expiring contracts tied to equities, ETFs and agricultural commodities.

Markets now see a September increase as likely, while the Fed’s own projections point to a higher policy rate by year-end.
CME Group has produced a solid 62.6% share price gain over the past 5 years, and the key issue now is whether that kind of payoff is aligned with the returns the exchange earns on the capital invested in its business. With the stock recently easing back from its highs and new derivatives products coming through, investors are asking if today’s price still matches the cash generation power behind this clearing and trading platform. Over 5 years the stock is up 62.6%, which puts real weight on...
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US equity futures were mostly flat pre-bell Wednesday as traders awaited a key inflation report for
Coinbase Global (COIN) has been moving its business away from bitcoin trading and into other products. You probably still think of Coinbase as a bet on the price of bitcoin. The stock has lost 38% over the past year, while the S&P 500 returned 17.7%. A fall that deep looks like what you would expect from a company tied to bitcoin trading. So how much of Coinbase's business still comes from bitcoin trading.
Nine crypto coins are now traded inside a single, financially settled futures contract on CME Group’s platform, but Bitcoin and Ethereum together make up 86.29% of that basket. The Nasdaq CME Crypto Index (NCI) and its micro-sized companion give institutions a way to hedge or gain exposure to a nine-asset ...
US stock futures pointed to a modestly higher open on Tuesday, with a decline in crude oil prices and a pullback in Treasury yields following losses for the major Wall Street indexes in the previous session. US crude oil futures fell more than 2%, reversing part of Monday’s increase.
On September 22, CME Group Inc. (NASDAQ:CME) announced plans to launch Bitcoin Cash (BCH) and Uniswap (UNI) futures on October 19, pending regulatory review. Responding to institutional demand for risk-management tools in high-liquidity altcoins, the contracts will feature both standard and Micro sizes: 250 BCH and 25 BCH contracts, as well as 10,000 UNI and […]
On September 8, CME Group Inc. (NASDAQ:CME) announced an agreement with the European Energy Exchange (EEX) to transition EEX’s European dairy business to CME Group, marking CME’s formal entry into the European dairy derivatives market. Under the deal, EEX will phase out its dairy operations and support the transfer of its key index suite, including […]
Cooper Investors, an investment management firm, released its second-quarter 2026 investor letter for “Cooper Investors Global Equities Fund (Unhedged)”. The letter can be downloaded here. The Fund returned 6.6% for the quarter, bringing its financial-year return to -6.4%. On a local currency basis, performance was approximately flat for the year, as the strengthening Australian Dollar […]
Webull (NASDAQ:BULL) enters an expansion phase backed by strong top-line momentum, having expanded full-year 2025 revenues by 46% to $571 million and total assets to over $4.1 billion. While working capital shifts led to a $250.9 million net operating cash outflow in the first half of 2026, the online brokerage maintains a solid balance sheet […]
Coinbase Global (COIN) shares returned 40% over the three months that ended on September 24. A $10,000 holding at the start of that window was worth about $13,980 at the end. The run came even as revenue kept falling. Management had been saying for well over a year that it wanted to go beyond trading, but the latest filed numbers pointed the other way.
CME Group’s new leveraged loan futures open another revenue stream to watch CME Group (CME) has just started trading S&P UBS USD Liquid Leveraged Loan Index futures, giving investors the first exchange listed contract tied to a transparent leveraged loan benchmark. CME Group shares trade at US$268.91 after a recent soft patch, with the 30-day share price return down 3.03%. Momentum over the past quarter has been stronger, with a 90-day share price return of 21.68%. Set against that near-term...
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US equity futures were edging lower pre-bell Thursday as traders observed rising Treasury yields and
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