The Justice Department and the country’s top commodity market regulator are investigating a series of oil market trades just ahead of major policy announcements from President Donald Trump and Iranian ...

While prediction markets are booming – allowing anyone to bet on nearly everything from sports to elections to who’s going to win season 50 of “Survivor” – the little-known federal agency that ...

U.S. Rep. Ritchie Torres, D-N.Y., called on the Securities and Exchange Commission and the Commodity Futures Trading Commission to look into trades in the oil and equity futures markets ahead of a ...

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Sen. Chris Murphy (D-Conn.) on Monday drew attention to an unusually large oil stock trade that occurred moments before President Trump announced a five-day pause on previously threatened energy ...

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As both the SEC and CFTC explore 24/7 trading hours for US capital markets, several traditional financial exchanges file to expand hours in anticipation of such a move. CME Group, the world’s largest ...

Single-stock futures (SSFs) are largely absent from conversations about modern trading strategies. That could change in 2026. After more than two decades in the market, SSFs aren’t new, but the ...

The Intercontinental Exchange (ICE) has revealed plans to extend trading hours for its European gas and power futures to match the 22-hour trading cycles of the United States’ Henry Hub and JKM (Japan ...

U.S. equity futures were finally back up and running just ahead of the opening of regular trading on Friday after a glitch at a data center in Chicago knocked markets out for several hours. The outage ...

Stock futures and options trading reopened fully at 8:30 a.m. ET. Globex futures and options markets, foreign exchange platform EBS markets and BMD markets were all impacted, the Chicago Mercantile ...