The US IRS is yet to issue guidelines on whether prediction market gains should be taxed as derivatives, gambling winnings, or income, worrying accountants (Kate Knibbs/Wired)
https://www.wired.com/story/nobody-knows-how-to-file-taxes-on-predi…
SpaceX has requested unusually swift entry into several leading stock market indexes as a condition of its historic stock market debut.
But the S&P 500 stock market index representing many of the largest profitable US companies
has surprised market analysts by refusing to bend the rules for Elon Musk’s space and AI company.
The June 4 decision by S&P Dow Jones Indices—the company that creates and manages stock market indexes such as the S&P 500—means that Space…
Mayor Mamdani's First 100 Days, April 2026 (Marist Poll)
https://maristpoll.marist.edu/polls/mayor-mamdanis-first-100-days-april-2026/
http://www.memeorandum.com/260408/p37#a260408p37
A report on local flexibility markets commissioned by the European Commission and carried out by the Belgian energy research centre VITO has outlined the key features of success: standardisation, automation, aggregation, transparency, markets
https://op.europa.eu/e…
„Chinesische Hersteller produzieren elektrische Autos von besserer Qualität zu deutlich niedrigeren Preisen.
Sollten deutsche E-Autos technologisch nicht aufschließen, gibt es keinen Grund zu glauben, dass der deutschen Automobilindustrie ein anderes Schicksal droht als der Solarindustrie.“
https://d…
Kalshi signs a deal with Fox Corp. to integrate its forecasts into Fox News, Fox Business Network, Fox One, and Fox Weather, following deals with CNN and CNBC (Alex Weprin/The Hollywood Reporter)
https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/tv/tv-news/fox…
Electric vehicles now account for a quarter of the new car market in Germany, France and the UK, with a further 12% for plug-in hybrids.
Other large car markets, such as Italy and Spain, are also seeing significant growth in the #EV share.
Tessera Labs, which uses AI agents to automate enterprise IT migrations and ERP transformations, raised a $60M Series A led by a16z at a $320M valuation (Anna Tong/Forbes)
https://www.forbes.com/sites/annatong/2026
MercadoLibre reports Q1 revenue up 49% YoY to $8.8B, vs. $8.4B est., and net income down 16% to $417M, vs. $433M est.; MELI drops 5% after hours (Bloomberg)
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2026-05-07/mercadolibre-re…