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On the one year anniversary of Liberation Day, WSJ’s Gavin Bade explains how President Trump forever changed U.S. trade policy. Photo: Kent Nishimura/Pool ...

The climate of the U.S. housing market for buyers varies around the country, and a new report suggests there are currently only eight metro areas that are truly buyer's markets. The economist research ...

The “AI Loser Trade,” the stock market rotation, and the Iran war were the themes that dominated stocks, bonds, and other financial markets during the first quarter. The result was a down quarter for ...

Oil prices plunged, stocks rallied and government bond yields sank after President Trump said he had agreed to a cease-fire with Iran if the Strait of Hormuz reopened. The immediate question for the ...

A dangerous, unregulated form of gambling that allows for degenerate betting on real events, unfettered by the economic and legal rules that keep stock markets and sports betting in check, creating an ...

The White House recently warned staff not to engage in insider trading on prediction markets and other platforms, according to a White House official. The internal warning came amid a flurry of ...

Investment firm Bernstein estimates that by 2030, prediction market volumes will surge to roughly $1 trillion. Dollar volumes on the markets surged in 2024, spurred by the U.S. presidential election, ...

Realtor.com identified 13 U.S. housing markets where at least half of active listings were priced above $1 million but with fewer than 500 such listings. Nearly all of Nantucket's active listings are ...

Lawmakers are pressing securities regulators to crack down on prediction markets amid several recent incidents of people using the increasingly popular platforms to bet on events tied to the Iran war ...

The Nasdaq rose another wave of optimism about the Middle East to its longest winning streak since 1992. The tech-heavy index rose 1.5%, its thirteenth daily gain in a row. The S&P 500 gained 1.2%.

The top federal regulator for the rapidly growing prediction market industry vowed Thursday to crack down on insider trading, and said his agency is actively investigating hundreds of possible cases.