The top US derivatives regulator is investigating a series of suspiciously well-timed trades in the oil futures market ahead of recent policy pivots by President Donald Trump related to the war in Iran, according to people familiar with the matter.
An oil tanker off the shore of Singapore, on Tuesday, March 17, 2026. A widening conflict in the Middle East has led to dramatic swings and surges in the price of fuel for ships, prompting distributors in Singapore, the world’s top bunkering hub, to cut back their purchases. Photographer: Ore Huiying/Bloomberg
The top US derivatives regulator is investigating a series of suspiciously well-timed trades in the oil futures market ahead of recent policy pivots by President Donald Trump related to the war in Iran, according to people familiar with the matter.
An oil tanker off the shore of Singapore, on Tuesday, March 17, 2026. A widening conflict in the Middle East has led to dramatic swings and surges in the price of fuel for ships, prompting distributors in Singapore, the world’s top bunkering hub, to cut back their purchases. Photographer: Ore Huiying/Bloomberg
Alex Sanfeliu, head of world trading at Cargill Inc., is leaving the top agricultural commodities firm after three decades, according to people familiar with the matter.
Jeff Sprecher runs a $90 billion company that owns the New York Stock Exchange, sets global benchmarks for oil and interest rates, and traded record volumes last year.
Scottie Pippen takes a shot on a basketball court during the FIA conference in Boca Raton, Florida. Source: CME Group
The Trump administration has discussed trading in the oil futures market as a strategy to help curb surging crude prices amid the war in Iran, Interior Secretary Doug Burgum said.
Fuel storage tanks at the Sunoco LP Terminal in Crockett, California, US, on Sunday, March 1, 2026. Oil surged by the most in four years, as the US-Israeli war against Iran plunged the global crude market into turmoil, with the effective closure of the critical Strait of Hormuz. Photographer: David Paul Morris/Bloomberg
S&P Dow Jones Indices LLC is considering changes to rules governing how companies join the S&P 500 Index, a move that would potentially fast-track SpaceX’s entry after its IPO, people familiar with the matter said.
A trader works on the floor of the New York Stock Exchange.
The heads of Chicago’s largest exchanges are calling for a review of the process that has allowed prediction market platforms to grow quickly by listing financial contracts without explicit regulatory approval.
Polymarket Founder and CEO Shayne Coplan, from left, CME Group CEO Terrence Duffy, President and CEO of Nasdaq Adena Friedman, and Cboe CEO Craig Donohue during a joint SEC-CFTC roundtable at SEC headquarters in Washington on Sept. 29.
Brokers to hedge funds and other institutional investors are moving to give clients access to Kalshi Inc.’s event bets, a sign of the growing push to open the nascent prediction market industry to Wall Street players.
The world’s biggest commodity traders are lining up billions of dollars in new credit lines as they position for further price spikes in oil and gas that could trigger giant margin calls.
A pumpjack and a drill rig in the Permian Basin near Midland, Texas.
Jump Trading is set to gain small stakes in Kalshi Inc. and Polymarket in exchange for providing liquidity on the prediction-market platforms, according to people with knowledge of the matter.
A Polymarket advertisement in a subway station in New York.
Archer-Daniels-Midland Co. agreed to pay $40 million to settle a two-year federal investigation into the crop giant’s accounting practices that rocked its share price and eroded faith in the company’s transparency.
A truck drives past the Archer-Daniels-Midland Co. (ADM) milling facility in St. Louis, Missouri, U.S., on Wednesday, Oct. 25, 2017. Archer-Daniels-Midland Co. is scheduled to release earnings figures on October 31. Photographer: Luke Sharrett/Bloomberg
The US will likely slide into a small recession at the end of the year and the stock market will drop as average-income consumers struggle with high living costs, according to John Rogers, chairman and co-chief executive officer of Ariel Investments.
The White House is considering a bipartisan slate of nominations for the Commodity Futures Trading Commission, according to people familiar with the matter, in what would be the first Democratic picks for a major Wall Street regulator during the second Trump administration.
China has secured at least 7 million tons of US soybeans after heavy buying in the past two weeks, passing the halfway mark toward meeting its 12-million ton purchase agreement with the Trump administration, according to people familiar with the deals.
China has secured at least 7 million tons of US soybeans after heavy buying in the past two weeks, passing the halfway mark toward meeting its 12-million ton purchase agreement with the Trump administration, according to people familiar with the deals.
President Donald Trump’s immigration crackdown is returning to Chicago, with raids carried out by US Border Patrol threatening to disrupt businesses before the holidays.
President Donald Trump’s immigration crackdown is returning to Chicago, with raids carried out by US Border Patrol threatening to disrupt businesses before the holidays.
Citadel is shrinking its footprint in Chicago three years after billionaire owner Ken Griffin left for Florida, moving the company’s remaining operations in the city out of the downtown tower that was named for it, according to people familiar with the matter.
Citadel Center in the Loop neighborhood of Chicago.
Some of the world’s biggest exchanges have set their sights on creating new derivatives tied to the fast-growing $16-trillion universe of privately held assets.
Craig Donohue, chief executive officer of Cboe Global Markets Inc., on the trading floor at the Cboe Global Markets exchange in Chicago, Illinois in Nov. 2025.
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