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Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg recently dispatched a small team at his company to create a smartphone app similar ‌to Polymarket and Kalshi, the New York Times reported on Tuesday, ‌citing two employees with knowledge of the matter. Prediction markets surged ⁠in popularity during the 2024 U.S. presidential election and have evolved into an asset class that lets investors wager on ⁠a variety of events, from monetary policy to sports tournaments. Trading platforms such as Robinhood and Interactive Brokers have rolled out event contracts.

Robinhood (HOOD) markets confirmed plans to sell $2 billion in convertible senior notes due 2029, and the stock dropped 2.2% in premarket trading on the news. A debt sale tied to a stock buyback usually reads as a vote of confidence. The fine print on this one tells a different story about what ...

Founded in 2013, Robinhood Markets (Nasdaq: HOOD) is a brokerage platform that lists stocks, cryptocurrencies, and tokenized stocks among several offerings. Its zero-commission trading has made it extremely popular among young retail traders. The company went public via an initial public ...

Watch as the billionaire entrepreneur reveals the grueling series of “nos” he got while building Robinhood, what he bought to celebrate its IPO, and why his next big bet is on space.

Charles Schwab handled 140,000 client calls as SpaceX's record IPO fueled heavy retail activity.

For people who like to bet on events over which they have no control, things have never been busier. The stock market listing of Elon Musk’s...

US equity markets were tracking in the green before the opening bell Thursday as investors weighed t

SpaceX gave 30% of IPO shares to retail investors, according to reports.

Founded by Stanford graduates Vladimir Tenev and Baiju Bhatt in 2013, Robinhood Markets (Nasdaq: HOOD) is a brokerage platform that has become popular with its stock, cryptocurrency, tokenized stock, and event prediction contract offerings. The company made news on June 16 when it ...

Stocks suffered broad, sharp losses on rate hike bets after the first Warsh Fed meeting. SpaceX fell for the first time while Robinhood jumped.

Robinhood received a big price-target hike from Wall Street a day after revealing hefty job cuts. On Wednesday, Argus analyst Stephen Biggar raised his HOOD stock price target by 22% to $110, according to TheFly.com. Biggar kept a buy rating on shares a day after Robinhood announced a 10% workforce reduction.

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FEATURE Artificial-intelligence stocks were mounting a comeback on Wednesday, having slumped the previous session, as hopes of a peace deal between the U.S. and Iran led investors to pile back into some of the market’s best-loved names.

Bitcoin is trading at approximately $65,829 as Federal Reserve Chair Kevin Warsh steps in to chair his first FOMC meeting. While traders analyzing whether the central bank will hike or hold this Wednesday have priced in a 3.50-3.75% rate hold at a 97.4% probability per the CME FedWatch tool, the true market driver remains Warsh’s impending forward guidance.

On Friday, SpaceX clinched the biggest IPO in the history of the U.S. equity market, raising more than $85 billion. On Tuesday, it followed that up with the biggest debut in the history of the U.S. options market.

Robinhood Markets (NASDAQ: HOOD) was sliding in the morning market hours after it announced a fresh round of layoffs. At press time, HOOD stock was down 1.98%, trading near $96. However, ahead of the morning bell, the stock had gained between 3% and 5% in premarket hours. The Menlo ...

For the past two years, the story of AI on Wall Street has mostly been about speed. Faster research, faster summaries, faster answers to questions an analyst would otherwise spend an afternoon on. That story is now changing shape. The systems now being built are not just answering questions about ...

The trading platform will cut roughly 290 jobs and incur $28 million in restructuring charges, citing a push to flatten management layers

On this episode of Stock Movers with Alexis Christoforous: - Yum! Brands (YUM) agreed to sell its struggling Pizza Hut chain for $2.7 billion to a private equity firm and its China business. LongRange Capital will acquire Pizza Hut ex-China for $1.5 billion, Yum said in a statement Tuesday. Yum China Holdings Inc. will buy the rest of the business for $1.2 billion. The transactions are expected to close in the third quarter. - Dave & Buster's (PLAY) shares tumble after the operator of restaurant and entertainment facilities reported comparable sales for the first quarter that missed the average analyst estimate. Research firm Benchmark downgraded the stock, citing a lack of confidence that same-store sales will stabilize/eventually turn positive this year. - Robinhood Markets (HOOD) shares are up after it said it is reducing its full-time employee workforce by 10%, and also closing a small number of open roles.

Robinhood Markets will lay off about 10% of its workforce, representing roughly 290 jobs, aiming to cut costs and work more efficiently.

SpaceX (SPCX) allocated at least a single share of its $86.2 billion initial public offering to ever

(Bloomberg) -- Customers at some of the largest retail brokerage firms in the US each received at least a single share in SpaceX’s $86.2 billion IPO, underscoring how the offering was designed to give individual investors a sizable role.Most Read from BloombergIran’s Deputy Foreign Minister Confirms Deal Reached With USUS and Iran Agree to Halt War, Restart Middle East Oil ShipmentsStudios in Microsoft’s Xbox Division Brace for ClosuresIran Signals No Deal Will Be Signed by Trump’s Sunday Timeli

Founded by Stanford graduates Vladimir Tenev and Baiju Bhatt in 2013, Robinhood Markets (Nasdaq: HOOD) is a brokerage platform that has become popular with its stock, cryptocurrency, and tokenized stock offerings. The company's stock hit the all-time high (ATH) of $153.86 on ...

A CNBC segment that ran last week opened with a sentence you do not normally hear from a buyer. “It’s stupid. It’s unreasonable… The valuation is really, really aggressive, in my opinion,” said Marvin Jung, a regional director of operations in veterinary care. Then he told CNBC he had requested roughly 1,000 shares of SpaceX ... Why Retail Investors Are Piling Into the SpaceX IPO Despite a Historic $2.1 Trillion Valuation

On this episode of Stock Movers with Alexis Christoforous: - Roku (ROKU) is higher while Fox (FOX) is declining on news Fox agreed to acquire Roku in a deal that values the streaming video platform at about $22 billion including debt. - United Airlines (UAL) is surging with airlines stocks up around 4% ahead of the open after the U.S. and Iran reached an interim peace deal. - Coinbase (COIN) and Robinhood (HOOD) are following Bitcoin higher amid broader risk appetite with the US-Iran interim deal.

By Sabrina Valle and Echo Wang NEW YORK, June 15 (Reuters) - Individual investors in the SpaceX IPO hoping to quickly sell their shares for a profit face stricter conditions than large funds over the

Another beneficiary of the interim U.S.-Iran peace deal: bitcoin. The cryptocurrency jumped to nearly $66,000 on Monday, touching its highest level in nearly two weeks. That helped lift shares of companies tied to crypto, including trading platforms Coinbase and Robinhood, and the bitcoin-hoarding company Strategy.

Citizens’ JMP Devin Ryan, Head of Financial Technology Research, argued on CNBC’s Squawk Box on June 12 that the real story of the SpaceX listing is the message it sends to every other private company sitting on the sidelines. “It’s good to be an investment banker, largest deal ever,” Ryan said, before pivoting to the ... Wall Street Analyst: SpaceX IPO Could Unleash Billions in New Public Offerings

Shares of several retail brokers that offered shares of SpaceX to customers at the IPO price rose on Friday, although not as dramatically as SpaceX's more than 20% gain. Charles Schwab shares were up 3% in late afternoon trading Friday, although the company also had some non-SpaceX good news of its own that probably helped boost the stock: solid growth in new assets and brokerage accounts. Robinhood's stock gained more than 1.5%, despite the fact that the firm reported some technical issues earlier Friday due to the "record-breaking traffic."

The brokerage’s official help account posted on X that the platform saw “record-breaking traffic today.”