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The CLARITY Act cleared the Senate Banking Committee 15-9, but Polymarket prices just a 68% chance of 2026 passage. Here's why traders are hedging.

Robinhood Markets (NASDAQ: HOOD) is trading higher on Thursday as April 2026 operating metrics show continued strength in securities lending.

The latest financial results of cryptocurrency exchange Bullish (NYSE: $BLSH) have come up short as trading activit...

Here are some of the companies making headlines in midday trading.

The Roundhill MEME ETF is up 75% since April. Goldman says retail trading volumes have jumped 28% as margin debt hits a record $1.3 trillion.

ARK Invest CEO Cathie Wood and Robinhood Markets Inc. (NASDAQ:HOOD) CFO Shivaram Rajgopal made the case for opening private markets to retail investors, arguing that everyday investors are increasingly locked out of the biggest wealth-creation opportunities in tech. Shifting Landscape In an interview session, on Tuesday the discussion centered around ARK's venture-focused interval fund and Robinhood's newly launched closed-end private markets fund. Both are designed to give retail investors expo

Robinhood Markets Inc: Robinhood Markets, Inc. reports April 2026 operating data Robinhood Markets Inc - total platform assets at end-April 2026 were $345 billion Robinhood Markets Inc - April...

Robinhood Markets, Inc. and Consolidated Subsidiaries Monthly Metrics Report for April 2026 2025 2026 ...

Funded Customers at the end of April were 27.6 million (up approximately 110 thousand from the end of March 2026, up approximately 1.65 million year-over-year).Total Platform Assets at the end of April were $345 billion

(Bloomberg) -- Charles Schwab Corp. is planning to use artificial intelligence to extend benefits usually reserved for wealthy clients to the less affluent. Most Read from BloombergAmbani’s Cola War With Coke, Pepsi Spurs Fridge Bonanza in IndiaNvidia’s CEO Joins Trump in China With AI in the SpotlightMamdani Scraps Property Tax Hike, Counts Second-Home RevenueInside a Year of Chaos and Conflict at Kevin Hart’s Media CompanySchwab Chief Executive Officer Rick Wurster said AI will be a “real acce

These stocks are facing some headwinds, but they may prove to be big winners in the long run.

The Investment Committee debates the latest calls of the day.

U.S. brokerage Charles Schwab (NYSE: $SCHW) has launched spot cryptocurrency trading services for retail investors ...

Robinhood Markets (NasdaqGS:HOOD) is launching its second retail focused venture fund, RVII, aimed at giving individual investors access to early stage and growth stage private companies. The new fund targets private market opportunities that have typically been available mainly to accredited or institutional investors. RVII represents a further expansion of Robinhood’s product lineup beyond its core trading app. Robinhood Markets, trading at around $78.27, has delivered mixed returns...

Allspring's fund beat the Russell 1000 Growth Index in Q1 2026 behind AI infrastructure gains. Read the full analysis for more details.

ARK Invest's Q1 2026 13F portfolio value declined to ~$12.86B with 182 holdings. Click here to read more about the holdings.

The AI developer behind chatbot Claude has updated warnings that it will not recognize unauthorized share transfers.

MENLO PARK, Calif., May 12, 2026 -- Robinhood Markets, Inc. today announced that it will be participating in the upcoming J.P. Morgan Global Technology, Media and Communications Conference on May...

The case for owning Spotify (NYSE:SPOT) has long rested on a two-engine narrative: a Premium subscription business compounding nicely, with an Ad-Supported tier eventually catching up. On a recent Motley Fool Money earnings podcast, an analyst pushed back on the second half of that story, arguing the “ad-supported business isn’t necessarily going to be the ... ‘Ad-Supported Business Isn’t the Path to Success’: Why One Analyst Says Spotify Should Lean on Pricing Power Instead

HOOD moves deeper into private markets with Ventures Fund II, offering retail access to early-stage startups and new revenue beyond trading.

Get insights into the top gainers and losers in the S&P500 index of Tuesday's pre-market session.

Retail traders are buying calls in Cboe's "Mag 10" stocks – the big seven plus AMD, Palantir and Broadcom – at the heaviest 10-day clip since 2021, according to a report from the exchange.

Robinhood files confidentially for its second venture fund, this time targeting growth and early-stage startups.

Venture capitalist Tim Draper backs Cowboy Space Corp., a space and energy startup led by Robinhood co-founder Baiju Bhatt.

Allspring Mid Cap Growth Fund outperformed its benchmark in Q1 2026 due to strong selection in industrials. Read the full analysis for more details.

The startup, formerly called Aetherflux, rebranded and is now targeting a first rocket launch before the end of 2028

Circle is the issuer of USDC, a so-called stablecoin whose value is pegged to the dollar and backed by reserves such as Treasuries.

In late April 2026, Robinhood Markets, Inc. reported first-quarter revenue of US$1,067 million and net income of US$350 million, alongside completing share repurchases totaling about 25.46 million shares under its 2024 buyback and an additional 26,274 shares under a new March 2026 authorization. The results highlighted rising overall revenues and platform assets but also a sharp quarterly drop in cryptocurrency revenue and the departure of the Chief Technology Officer, underscoring both...

News May 11, 2026 Robinhood Ventures Fund II Confidentially Submits Draft Registration Statement Robinhood Ventures Fund II has...

One of the hottest private companies is software giant Databricks, recently valued at $134 billion. The growth of the company's valuation could help explain why retail investors are rushing to new offerings that give them exposure to pre-IPO companies. Robinhood...