POWER POINT What I’m hearing from energy insiders First and foremost, I hope that everybody had a wonderful 4th of July holiday and celebrated the 250th birthday of this amazing nation. As the celebrations ended and this week began, we seemed to be on a path to the Iran conflict winding down and the Strait…
Divided Federal Reserve officials indicated at their last meeting that they will address persistent inflation this year with one interest rate hike. History, though, suggests that policymakers will have a hard time stopping there. In fact, there have been few instances over the past 35 years or so when the Fed has only made one…
U.S. President Donald Trump arrives with incoming Federal Reserve Chair Kevin Warsh for Warsh’s swearing-in ceremony at the White House in Washington, D.C., U.S., May 22, 2026. Jonathan Ernst | Reuters With inflation topping 4%, the Trump administration is easing off its long-standing calls for the Federal Reserve to immediately cut interest rates. That is…
Federal Reserve Chairman Kevin Warsh’s tough talk on inflation Wednesday reverberated through financial markets, with traders expecting that the central bank could start jacking up interest rates in just a few months. Tapped to serve by President Donald Trump, who has repeatedly demanded lower rates, Warsh during a news conference instead focused on the battle…
Terry Duffy, CEO of CME Group Inc., speaks during the Piper Sandler Global Exchange and FinTech Conference in New York City, U.S., June 5, 2025. Adam Gray | Reuters Outgoing CME Group CEO Terrence Duffy said on CNBC’s “Fast Money” on Wednesday afternoon that the exchange operator will sue the Commodity Futures Trading Commission over…
Terry Duffy, CME Group Scott Mlyn | CNBC CME Group‘s longtime leader Terry Duffy will step down as chief executive officer next year, succeeded by President and Chief Financial Officer Lynne Fitzpatrick. Duffy, 67, will transition to executive chairman effective March 1, 2027, the company said Tuesday. It marks a more than two-decade run that…
Sports prediction markets are having a gold-rush moment. Enthusiasm around the World Cup and NBA finals led Kalshi to set a new daily record Saturday for trading volume at $1.2 billion. A wave of companies is trying to stake a claim, hoping to follow suit and strike it rich in what JB Mackenzie, Robinhood’s head…
Commodity Futures Trading Commission chair Michael Selig weighed into the perpetual futures debate in a Monday appearance on CNBC’s “Fast Money,” defending his agency’s decision to approve the asset domestically. Selig said that incumbents will always fear the future, but that the commission is looking to onshore products that are being developed internationally to ensure…
SpaceX is on the verge of going where no initial public offering has ever gone before. The company, created and led by Elon Musk, is targeting a stratospheric valuation of $1.75 trillion on the Nasdaq Stock Market. SpaceX may be fast-tracked into broadly held indexes like the Nasdaq 100 and S&P 500 at light speed….
In this photo illustration, Apps for online prediction market sites are shown on an electronic device on Feb. 25, 2026 in Chicago, Illinois. Scott Olson | Getty Images States and the federal government may be battling over who has the power to regulate prediction markets, but the companies building them are chugging along as the…
