What's Behind Last Week's Stock Market Drama

Prediction markets like Kalshi and Polymarket have been described as "truth machines" that produce more accurate forecasts than traditional polling. In this video we look at how they actually work, why the federal government is fighting individual states over who gets to regulate ...  Show more

In October 2021, Mark Zuckerberg stood in front of the world and announced that the future of human interaction would be something called the metaverse. He was so confident about this that he renamed his three-billion-user company after it. Over the following four years, Meta spe ...  Show more

Robert Leonard chats with Brian Feroldi about why personal finance isn’t widely spread in the US education system today, why stocks have value in the first place, what the Dow Jones Industrial Average, S&P 500, and the Nasdaq really are and how they differ, why public companies m ...  Show more

Penny stocks are having a moment. In recent months, little-known companies with names such as Bit Brother and Phunware have been among the most traded stocks in America’s public markets, surpassing companies like Tesla and popular exchange traded funds. The FT’s US markets edi ...

In this week's episode of WSJ’s Take On the Week, co-hosts Gunjan Banerji and Telis Demos dig into the latest big bank earnings and what they signal about the health of the U.S. consumer. Next, they explore the disconnect between potential economic warning signs and the market’s ...  Show more

<span>In this Market Mondays clip, hosts Troy Millings, Ian Dunlap, and Rashad Bilal break down what really drives the stock market and what’s just background noise. With stock futures drifting higher ahead of a high-profile meeting, the team explores whether political events ...