From the Desk

SEC officially approves major overhaul of day trading regulations, ending the Pattern Day Trader rule.

Fresh assault on already-battered software stocks as Anthropic prepares to unveil Opus 4.7 and a new AI-powered design tool.

Anthropic's decision to withhold its latest frontier model underscores the growing systemic risk that advanced AI poses to financial infrastructure.

Palantir plunged as much as 8% on Thursday after Michael Burry claimed Anthropic is “eating Palantir’s lunch” in enterprise AI.

In his final months as CEO, Buffett’s only new stock purchase was a newspaper.

If you bought CRISPR Therapeutics stock in 2021, you were told you were buying the future of medicine.

The events in Puerto Vallarta following the reported killing of El Mencho.

The Court ruled that the president cannot use a 1977 emergency powers law to impose sweeping tariffs.

From Super Bowl halftime bets to Venezuela and Israel, Polymarket has become one of the easiest ways to profit from insider information.

The companies that sell you toothpaste and frozen chicken are dramatically outperforming the companies building the future.

Ray Dalio published a sweeping essay on the state of global economics. Here are the key takeaways.

Google’s parent company just did something that even most governments won’t do.

Trump wants to cap credit card interest rates at 10%. Bill Ackman pushed back and got buried.

From AMD-OpenAI to Grindr, 2025 saw a flood of perfectly-timed options sweeps and pre-news flows.

Two Japanese finance professors published a paper claiming overnight returns predict next-day reversals.

If a U.S. move on Greenland triggered Article 5 in reverse, how far could the VIX actually spike?

Nike has endured a painful multiyear drawdown that remains hard to fathom for such an iconic brand.

Zohran Mamdani’s mayoral win revives a provocative thought experiment: what if society capped personal wealth at $1 billion?

A Chinese invasion of Taiwan would be a bigger shock than Ukraine. Here’s why the VIX could reach 60–80+.

Markets despise uncertainty. And midterm elections inject plenty of it into the financial system.

At age 95, Warren Buffett steps down as CEO of Berkshire Hathaway after 60 years.

The most basic concept in finance is that higher risk equals higher returns. But what if it doesn’t?

Stanley Druckenmiller lost $3 billion in the dot-com bubble and delivered one of the most powerful quotes in investing history.

Jim Simons charged a 5% management fee and 44% performance fee, and investors still lined up. Here’s what his math-first approach teaches volatility traders.

The man who famously called the 2008 financial crisis just shut down his hedge fund.

A new research paper out of Oxford claims a hybrid machine-learning model can forecast market turbulence.

Mike Green dropped a blunt assessment of Meta Platforms and its fight for survival in the AI race.

Traders call natural gas the “widow maker” because of how often it destroys well-reasoned strategies. Here’s how NG earned its fearsome reputation.

Economists have a terrible track record predicting recessions, yet investors keep bleeding money on crash bets that never pay off.