Stock futures play a central role in modern financial markets, offering investors a way to anticipate market direction, manage risk, and express

Oil futures opened the year with a modest decline as the continuing Ukraine-Russia war and rising Middle East tensions countered concerns about oversupply.

Garrett Toay with AgTraderTalk attributes the rally mostly to corrective buying after a $1.40 break from the highs in soybeans. Traders are also short in the wheat market, which just came off of contract lows in SRW futures.

Major stock indexes ended lower for a fourth straight session on the final trading day of 2025, although they posted double-digit gains for the year.

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Polymarket’s decentralized forecasting has caught Wall Street’s eye. The New York Stock Exchange’s parent, Intercontinental Exchange (NYSE:ICE), made a headline-grabbing US$2 billion investment last week, signaling that decentralized forecasting is ...

An effort to ban insider trading by officials privy to nonpublic government business using prediction markets has picked up a key endorsement.