The Nasdaq wants to compete with Polymarket and Kalshi.
The stock exchange has filed a proposed rule change with the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) to list and trade “Outcome-Related Options” (OROs).
If approved, OROs would entitle buyers to receive a fixed amount based on whether the settlement price of the underlying contract is at, above, or below a predetermined strike price at...
Fundstrat’s Tom Lee thinks March will be an “up month” for the stock market despite the geopolitical instability unleashed by the US and Israel’s airstrikes against Iran.
In a new interview with CNBC, Lee predicts that the worst of the war-related sell-off will happen this week.
“Nobody likes to see headlines and images of explosions and war, and so we know risk premium jumps – that’s why the VIX...
Leveraged Bitcoin and crypto traders are getting wrecked to start the week, as investors weigh the impact of the US and Israel’s strikes on Iran.
Bitcoin surged from a 24-hour low of $65,280 to as high as $69,850, triggering a total of $432 million in liquidations, according to CoinGlass.
The majority of the liquidations hit traders going short, coming in at $253 million.
The pseudonymous crypto...
An analyst known for making timely crypto calls believes one Ethereum (ETH) rival is flashing bullish signals.
Pseudonymous analyst Bluntz tells his 339,000 followers on X that Solana (SOL) may be setting the stage for a breakout after posting a bullish divergence on the four hour chart.
A bullish divergence occurs when the price of an asset is forming lower lows while an oscillator like the...
The amount of unrealized losses on American banks’ balance sheets remains “elevated,” according to the Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation.
In its new Quarterly Banking Profile for the fourth quarter of 2025, the FDIC says US banks reported $306.1 billion in unrealized losses on securities.
Unrealized losses are the difference between the price banks paid for securities and the current market...
Wells Fargo has denied a customer’s plea for reimbursement after a scammer drained $18,000 from his account, according to a new report.
Virginia resident William Sroufe lost more than $18,000 on December 17th in a phone scam where the caller impersonated Wells Fargo, reports the local news outlet WWBT.
The caller ID displayed Wells Fargo’s name and the scammer claimed to notice fraudulent...
JPMorgan Chase has accused a customer of fraud after he tried to deposit a legitimate annuity check tied to his father’s death in the September 11th attacks, according to a new report.
Malik Washington, a 28-year-old New York resident, walked into the Chase branch on January 9th to cash the check, reports News 12.
It came from an annuity his mother, Kiesha Washington, set up for her children...
The digital dating giant Tinder has agreed to pay millions of dollars to settle a lawsuit accusing it of discriminating against users based on their age.
According a newly updated settlement administrator’s portal, Tinder will pay $60.5 million to settle allegations that it charged higher prices to older users in California.
The class action lawsuit, which was filed in May of 2015, alleged that...
A US bank is preparing to shell out more than $10 million to settle allegations that it harassed customers.
A civil lawsuit accused the Las Vegas-based bank Credit One of instructing agent vendors to frequently call and harass customers in an effort to collect credit card debt, even after customers asked the bank to stop calling.
The complaint, filed by the District Attorneys’ Offices of Los...
February 28th, 2026 – Dubai, UAE
Bybit, the world’s second-largest cryptocurrency exchange by trading volume, has introduced a fixed-rate borrowing option under its Unified Trading Account (UTA) Loan product, bringing together leverage of up to 10 times and fixed borrowing periods of up to 180 days within a single unified account — a combination that remains rare in the digital asset market...