In Q2, there were thirteen $1B US venture-backed startup exits, either through acquisition or IPO, the most exits since the 2021 market peak (Joanna Glasner/Crunchbase News)
https://news.crunchbase.com/public/data-billion-dollar-startup-exits-ma-ipo…
The bond market prepares for a hike in interest rates while stocks drift lower
The bond market swung Friday as investors built bets that the Federal Reserve may hike interest rates soon to get the nation’s high inflation under control.
U.S. stocks, meanwhile, dipped
but not by much after economists said a speech by Chairman Kevin Warsh helped strengthen faith that the Fed will do what’s needed to bring inflation down,
even if it causes pain for the economy in the sh…
Eventual, a new media company that uses prediction market data and trader insights for forecasting and analysis, launches in partnership with Polymarket (Sara Fischer/Axios)
https://www.axios.com/2026/07/28/prediction-markets-media-startup-eventual
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Doctors and researchers worry that FDA-related wagers on Kalshi and Polymarket could compromise drug development tests and erode public trust in the process (Rebecca Robbins/New York Times)
https://www.nytimes.com/2…
Brexit is costing the UK £11.7bn a year in lost exports, stark new figures show,
piling further pressure on Andy Burnham to rejoin the EU’s single market and customs union.
The damning findings by Logistics UK, which represents freight companies and is one of the largest trade associations in the UK,
show that the loss in revenue compared with 2019 is worth £400 per household in the UK per year.
The organisation has called on the prime minister to push for greater alig…
An appeals court rules states can regulate prediction markets, finding Kalshi's sports event contracts are bets, not swaps, and subject to state gambling laws (Lauren McCarthy/New York Times)
https://www.nytime…
Dell stock closed up 32.81%, its best day ever, after reporting its fastest pace of revenue growth for any period since returning to the public market in 2018 (CJ Haddad/CNBC)
https://www.cnbc.com/2026/05/29/dell-stock-earnings-ai-servers.html
Apple overtakes Nvidia to become the world's most valuable publicly traded company, two years after it lost the crown, closing at a $4.9T market cap on Monday (Kalley Huang/New York Times)
https://www.nytimes.com/2026/07/27/technology/apple-valuation.html
Robinhood reports Q2 revenue up 32% YoY to $1.31B, vs. $1.29B est., event contracts revenue up over 10x to $156M, and crypto revenue down 38% to $100M (Bill Peters/MarketWatch)
https://www.morningstar.com/news/marketwat