Markets Open Today: Stocks, Rates and Key Movers
A clear breakdown of when markets open and close, how the opening and closing auctions work, and how trading hours across stocks, bonds, and global exchanges affect your investment accounts.
Eli Castillo
Marketside Brand: What to Know About Walmart's Grocery Line
Marketside is Walmart's private label grocery line, but shoppers often confuse it with Target's store brands. Here's what it actually is and how it compares.
SpaceX Stock: Should You Buy Before Nasdaq 100 Inclusion July 7?
SpaceX shares jumped after joining the Nasdaq 100 under a new fast entry rule, forcing billions in index fund buying. Here's what the valuation, momentum and losses actually show.
Axon (AXON) Stock Gets Trump Boost Ahead of Federal Agency Expansion
Axon shares surged after disclosures showed Trump bought a stake weeks before ICE sought thousands of tasers matching Axon's specs, raising ethics questions.
Trump Reports $2.2 Billion in 2025 Income, Raising Ethics Concerns
Trump's income hit $2.2 billion in 2025, with $1.4 billion from crypto ventures. Ethics experts call the disclosure evidence of unprecedented corruption and conflicts of interest.
OpenAI Proposes 5% Stake for Trump Administration, FT Reports
OpenAI reportedly floated giving the U.S. government a 5% stake, with other AI firms possibly asked to follow. Neither party has confirmed the plan.
Microsoft Launches New Firm to Help Companies Adopt AI
Microsoft launches a $2.5 billion company to help enterprises mix and match AI models instead of relying on one provider, joining Amazon and Palantir in a fast shifting market.
Microsoft Launches New AI Company With $2.5 Billion Investment
Microsoft is committing $2.5 billion and 6,000 engineers to a new unit called Microsoft Frontier, aimed at pushing enterprise clients past AI pilot programs into real deployments.
Microsoft Launches Frontier Company With 6,000 Engineers, $2.5B
Microsoft is putting $2.5 billion and 6,000 engineers behind a new unit that embeds staff inside client companies to build AI systems, joining Anthropic, OpenAI and Amazon in a fast…
Spotify Removes No. 1 Song's Streams After Suspicious Kalshi Bets
Spotify pulled streams of a chart topping song after tracing a suspicious spike to bets on Kalshi, reviving questions about manipulation across prediction markets.
Trump Financial Disclosure Reveals 21,000 Trades in 2025
Trump's 2025 financial disclosure reveals over 21,000 securities trades worth up to 1.86 billion dollars, plus 1.4 billion in crypto earnings, raising fresh conflict of interest questions.
Trump made over $1 billion on crypto as coin investors lost money
TRUMP token slides 2.66% as its market value sits 97% below launch highs, even while President Trump's companies keep collecting fees from every trade.
Reinsurance Ceded Explained: Types, Benefits and Comparison to Assumed
Reinsurance ceded lets insurers hand off part of their risk to specialist reinsurers, capping potential losses and keeping premiums steady. Here's how the process, contracts, and regulations actually work.
Moral Hazard vs Adverse Selection: Key Differences Explained
Why do insured drivers take more risks, and why do smokers sometimes lie on health forms? Moral hazard and adverse selection explain both, and the difference matters for your premiums.
Insurance Underwriting Guidelines Face Discrimination Concerns
Insurance underwriting discrimination refers to the practice of setting rates and coverage terms in ways that unfairly penalize people based on protected traits like race, rather than on their actual…
Trump Defends Crypto Wealth, Says Bitcoin (BTC) Tax Unfair
. His framing treated digital assets less like a niche financial product and more like a technology race the United States needs to win, alongside semiconductors or artificial intelligence. That…
Jersey Mike's Files for IPO
Jersey Mike's has filed for an IPO on the NYSE under ticker JMKE, revealing $4.3 billion in systemwide sales, a 47 percent EBITDA margin, and plans for thousands more restaurants…
Google Ordered to Pay PriceRunner €1.3 Billion
A Stockholm court ordered Google to pay 1.3 billion euros over its price comparison tool, siding with Klarna's PriceRunner but awarding far less than the 7.2 billion euros sought.
Alibaba (BABA) Pays $600 Million to Settle DOJ Drug Probe
Alibaba and its U.S. payments arm will pay 600 million dollars over illegal pharmaceutical sales claims, as BABA shares slide to 96.14 dollars amid oversold momentum readings.
Indemnity Explained in Insurance Law
What does indemnity actually mean in insurance and contracts? Here's a plain language breakdown of how indemnity clauses work, how payouts happen, and real examples from farming to war reparations.
USMCA Faces Uncertain Future After US Rejection
The U.S. has refused to renew the USMCA as written, kicking off annual reviews even as trade with Mexico and Canada hits record highs.
Medicare to Cover GLP1 Weight Loss Drugs at $50 Monthly
Millions of older Americans could soon pay far less for weight loss drugs under a new federal pilot. The Medicare GLP-1 Bridge program will let eligible Medicare beneficiaries get certain…
Meta (META) CEO Warns on AI Goal
Meta stock slid nearly 5% after Zuckerberg admitted the company's AI reorganization has stalled, raising fresh questions about the payoff from its 145 billion dollar AI spending plan.
US Rejects Extending North America Trade Pact As Is
The US will not renew the USMCA in its current form, shifting the pact to annual reviews and stirring fresh uncertainty for supply chains across North America.