Key TakeawaysBitcoin Breakout: Coinbase stock jumped 12% on Friday, September 18, as bitcoin cleared $80,000 for the first time in weeks, making COIN the S&P 500’s top percentage gainer that session. Split Verdict: The Street carries 18 buys, 3 outperforms, 11 holds, one underperform and one sell on Coinbase stock, with a $202 mean target sitting just 4% above Friday’s close.
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Robinhood CEO Vlad Tenev tells CNBC he expects crypto to overtake sports as prediction markets' top category within years.

Interest rates are higher again, inflation is stuck at 3.4%, and the Federal Reserve is openly comfortable keeping borrowing costs elevated for longer. That mix hurts some areas of the market and can support others, especially where cash balances and idle dollars matter. This article walks through three US brokerage and cash-sweep platform stocks exposed to this rate backdrop and explains how the current setup could help or hurt investors who own them. The three broker and platform stocks...

AI is not so fashionable, in part, because most labs are privately owned, Vlad Tenev said. So that leaves regular investors with no “skin in the game,” he said.

Robinhood stock surged in an end-of-week crypto rally. SpaceX is testing an aggressive entry. They lead five stocks near buy points.

The Fed raised rates 25 basis points on Sept. 16, and brokers and exchanges like Interactive Brokers, Robinhood, and CME Group stand to benefit from the new hiking cycle.
Key TakeawaysBitcoin Rebound: MARA stock jumped 14% Friday as bitcoin surged near $81,000. Split Verdict: Six buys, two outperforms, four holds, one underperform and one sell make up the 14 analysts TIKR tracks on MARA stock, whose mean target of $18 sits 39% above Friday’s close.

Key TakeawaysBitcoin Breakout: Coinbase stock jumped 12% on Friday, September 18, closing at $194, as bitcoin cleared $80,941 and new CFTC and SEC rulemaking reignited the regulatory tailwind Congress couldn’t deliver. Buy Wall: TIKR tracks 18 buys, 3 outperforms, and 11 holds on Coinbase stock.

Customers keep moving billions onto the platform every month. Reaching the milestone needs less help from the market than you might think.

Bitwise CIO Matt Hougan reversed a months-long warning about the CLARITY Act within 24 hours of its Senate defeat, and the market celebrated his pivot. But three quiet caveats buried in his memo tell a different story about what he actually believes.

A number of stocks jumped in the afternoon session after the SEC announced a five-year conditional Innovation Exemption allowing eligible platforms to trade tokenized U.S. equities without standard exchange registration.

The disposal was executed under a pre-established Rule 10b5-1 trading plan adopted in August 2025, reducing the insider's direct stake to 56,858 shares.

Coinbase trades at a steep premium as diversification, global expansion and recurring revenues support growth as crypto volatility and earnings pressures loom.

The SEC just opened a legal lane for tokenized stocks, and Solana already holds nearly half the market. But a closer look at the fine print reveals why its head start may count for less than it appears.

The S&P 500 Index ($SPX ) (SPY ) is down by -0.11% today, the Dow Jones Industrial Average ($DOWI ) (DIA ) is down by -0.39%, and the Nasdaq 100 Index ($IUXX ) (QQQ ) is up +0.09%. December E-mini S&P futures (ESZ26 ) are down -0.15%, and December E-mini...

Robinhood’s Abhishek Fatehpuria on winning the modern financial consumer at TechCrunch Disrupt 2026. Register now to save up to $200 before September 25 at 11:59 p.m. PT.

CFTC staff on Thursday made it easier for apps to offer prediction markets without registering as brokers, expanding a model already used by Phantom. The no-action letter lets qualifying “passive software” providers offer access to regulated derivatives, including prediction markets,...

Tenev made the forecast on Robinhood's February 2026 earnings call, when the business he was describing was running at roughly one dollar in every fifteen of company revenue.

FEATURE Stock futures were rising on Friday, as investors carried on piling into tech following the Federal Reserve’s first interest-rate increase in more than three years. The artificial-intelligence trade still has legs, judging by premarket moves.

The world’s largest cryptocurrency has shown its resilience, rallying despite two potential setbacks.

↘️ Nestle (CH:NESN): The Swiss food-product maker said it is assessing options for its Russian unit after Moscow transferred control to external administrators, in the latest move by the Kremlin to seize the local assets of international companies.

Large-cap stocks have the power to shape entire industries thanks to their size and widespread influence. With such vast footprints, however, finding new areas for growth is much harder than for smaller, more agile players.

Robinhood Ventures Fund I (RVI) has purchased about $25 million of preferred stock in Crusoe as part of the company’s $3.9 billion Series F financing round.
A temporary exemption could unlock a much bigger shift
Platforms must notify a company and wait 30 days before trading its token

