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Investing.com -- Robinhood Markets (NASDAQ:HOOD) shares rose 6% Thursday following the Securities and Exchange Commission’s announcement of guidance permitting digital versions of securities to trade in the United States.
Yahoo Finance Executive Editor Brian Sozzi welcomes Senior Business Reporter Ines Ferre to the Opening Bid to discuss whether the latest Fed rate decision could mark the start of a tightening cycle, which has historically pressured markets. Robinhood (HOOD) chief investment officer Stephanie Guild also weighs in on what higher rates could mean for markets, with a focus on the energy sector.

Federal prosecutors have charged two former staffers at Robinhood Markets with fraud, according to a complaint filed Tuesday in the Southern District of New York. The complaint alleges that the two defendants were working as engineers at Robinhood when they used confidential company information to trade perpetual futures on the trading platform Hyperliquid. The former employees, Hefu Chai and Huaisong Xiang, allegedly used information in emails and Slack channels to buy perpetual futures linked to crypto tokens, ahead of announcements that those tokens would be listed on the Robinhood Crypto platform.

Two Robinhood Markets Inc. employees were charged by US prosecutors with fraud for allegedly using nonpublic information to trade crypto-linked perpetual futures on a decentralized derivatives exchange.

Stock Market Today: The Dow Jones index drops Tuesday as the 10-year Treasury yield reaches its highest level since 2007. Nvidia stock rises.

The financial services company is moving well beyond just being a stock brokerage.
Robinhood CEO Vlad Tenev has his eyes on more lucrative underwriting dollars.

Robinhood (HOOD) Chairman and CEO Vlad Tenev sits down with Yahoo Finance Executive Editor Brian Sozzi to discuss the company's underwriting debut with Oura and whether a bigger name in the AI industry could be next on their IPO list.

Robinhood Chief Executive Vlad Tenev defended the company's push into tokenized stocks in a CNBC interview Wednesday. Tenev's remarks come on the heels of fiery criticism from AMC Chief Executive Adam Aron, whose company's shares are among those being tokenized. Tenev said companies can't control the financial products created around their shares once public.

Find insight on Chime, Bank of Japan, Public Bank and more in the latest Market Talks covering Financial Services.

Stocks took a beating Tuesday as surging oil prices and looming inflation data rattled every corner of the market, and now Wall Street analysts are reshuffling their calls on names ranging from nuclear energy upstart Oklo to retail giants Abercrombie and Ulta Beauty.

The analyst firm reaffirmed its view on Robinhood as the stock remains in focus on Wall Street.

Morgan Krupetsky, vice president of Onchain Finance at Ava Labs, joins Scarlet Fu and Tim Stenovec on "Bloomberg Crypto." They the recent spat between AMC and Robinhood over tokenized trading and the different use cases for different tokenization models.

Bloomberg's Anna Irrerea joins Scarlet Fu and Tim Stenovec on "Bloomberg Crypto." AMC CEO Adam Aron traded barbs with Robinhood CEO Vlad Tenev last week after discovering a token bearing the theater chain's name was trading on the brokerage's blockchain. AMC CEO dubbed it "outrageous" and demanded that Robinhood cease trading it.

Great Hill Capital Chairman and Managing Member Thomas Hayes and AllSource Investment Management founder and Managing Partner Patrick Kennedy join Yahoo Finance Executive Editor Brian Sozzi to discuss Robinhood (HOOD) serving as the underwriter for Oura ahead of its IPO and whether the platform is accumulating a reputation as a bank.

Robinhood Markets Inc. will take equity stakes in Crypto.com and its prediction-markets platform spinoff OG.com as part of a multiyear agreement that will add another provider of event contracts to the brokerage’s predictions business.

The brokerage will add yes-or-no contracts from Crypto.com’s prediction business, and take a stake in the digital-currency exchange.

The brokerage will add yes-or-no contracts from Crypto.com’s prediction business, and take a stake in the digital-currency exchange.

Robinhood Markets has been named as one of the underwriters in smart-ring maker Oura’s IPO filing.

Americans are vibe-coding trading algorithms and handing over their stock portfolios to AI agents. Welcome to the world of the robot retail investor.

AMC Entertainment chief executive Adam Aron criticized Robinhood Markets' Vlad Tenev on X after the broker launched AMC stock tokens. AMC is among more than 190 companies and ETFs that are now linked to tokens registered by a Robinhood subsidiary on an island roughly 3,000 miles from the U.S. "This quasi-fake market you are creating on the island of Jersey sows distrust amongst the public about financial markets in general," Aron wrote.

AMC Entertainment CEO Adam Aron asks Robinhood to cease and desist trading the AMC stock token.
Any regulatory action or SEC complaint stemming from Aron's threats would target the platform's rapidly expanding Robinhood Chain token business, which generated over $3.8 million in network revenue on September 1 alone, ranking first among all blockchain networks globally, according to Investing.com market context data.

The Fed’s keeping a close eye on the jobs report, stock futures rise, and AMC is the biggest riser after a CEO spat.

↗️ Volkswagen (XE:VOW3): Shares jumped 6% after the German automaker’s supervisory board approved a plan to double job losses to 100,000 and halve its model portfolio as it contends with President Trump’s tariffs and intensifying competition from Chinese automakers.

The stock market jumped above key levels Thursday, buoyed by Snowflake and dovish Fed comments. A Tesla Cybercab event and jobs report are on tap.

Robinhood and Coinbase rally as the price of Bitcoin surges to its highest level since May, fueled by easing Federal Reserve rate hike expectations.

