Options traders are betting on a dramatic drop in interest rates

Investors are aggressively betting on a sudden turnaround in interest rates, and they’re using call options on exchange-traded funds tied to utilities stocks and long-dated Treasury bonds to do it.

CrowdStrike Holdings Inc. Cl A stock falls Wednesday, underperforms market

Shares of CrowdStrike Holdings Inc. Cl A CRWD shed 4.81% to $265.44 Wednesday, on what proved to be an all-around rough trading session for the stock market, with the S&P 500 Index SPX falling 0.22% ...

Microsoft and Nvidia are teaming up on a supercharged AI laptop

Powered by Nvidia’s RTX Spark chip, the latest Windows laptop is designed to run AI models and workloads directly on the ...

College students have to use credit cards just to cover basic living expenses. Here’s what it’s costing them.

Nearly 9 out of every 10 students who use credit cards report doing so to pay for basic living expenses such as food, housing ...

Stocks are increasingly their own best hedge. This chart shows why.

For decades, investors concerned about stocks sought succor in the bond market. But these days, the best shield against an ...

Opinion: Washington and Wall Street chose to delay paying their bills — and to put them on your tab

The polite word for what the government and Wall Street are doing is deferring payment, like opening a tab at a bar that ...

Stocks close lower, but a pullback in yields and a drop in oil prices helps limit losses

Stocks closed broadly lower Wednesday, but well off their worst levels of the day, as a pullback in Treasury yields off multidecade highs and a reversal to the downside in oil prices helped stem the ...

Valneva Says Ixchiq Vaccine Recalled in U.K. Due to Safety Concerns

Ixchiq, which is a vaccine for the mosquito-borne illness chikungunya, was launched in the U.K. in 2025. However, Valneva wasn't actively distributing it there due to low sales amongst travelers.

U.S. Stocks Fall as Treasury Yields Test Multidecade Highs

The Dow Jones Industrial Average fell 341.41 points, 0.66%, to 51179.87. The S&P 500 lost 17.16 points, or 0.22%, to 781.77, falling from a record high. The tech-heavy Nasdaq Composite slipped 61.20 ...

Dow trims decline as yield surge eases

Bond yields are the big driver again Wednesday. The Dow Jones Industrial Average hit a session low of 50,917.42 in morning ...

Duke Energy Reaches Settlement to Shield N.C. Customers From Data-Center Costs

"It's simple -- data centers will pay upfront for all costs to connect to the grid," Kendal Bowman, president of Duke's North Carolina arm, said. "We're shielding other customers from these costs in a ...

FireFly Robotics Stockholders to List Up to 27.1M Shares on Nasdaq

FireFly Robotics said some of its stockholders intend to resell up to 27.1 million shares in connection with its direct listing on Nasdaq. The resale is not being underwritten, and the stockholders ...