Pershing Square CEO Bill Ackman speaks on CNBC’s “Squawk Box,” Nov. 3, 2026. CNBC Bill Ackman worries that the stock market is broken, saying the rise of speculative trading is leading to wild price swings thanks to the amount of leverage in the system. “Every number of days, I feel like markets are broken,” Ackman

The US Capitol is reflected in the Capitol Reflecting Pool in Washington, DC, US, October 27, 2026. Umit Bektas | Reuters The stock market is not yet pricing in a Democratic sweep of Congress — despite some polls and most prediction markets pointing that way — so that scenario could weigh on share prices Wednesday,

Investors are always on the lookout for the next big thing in technology, and this time around, it may be quantum computing. It offers us an enormous step up from classical computing, allowing us to solve many of today’s impossible problems. While classical systems use bits to store information in the form of a zero

A roaring market is obviously good news for stock and commodity exchanges, because it prompts more revenue-generating trading activity. To this end, with the market still within sight of record highs, the exchanges are doing pretty well, although they’re not at the levels they reached earlier this year, when over $1 trillion in investments exchanged

Shares of AppLovin (APP +0.15%) are down 65% so far in 2026, making it the worst performer in the S&P 500 as of the end of October. It’s been an abysmal performance for the tech stock. And rather than one big sell-off, it’s been a continually slow, painful decline for the company’s shareholders. The adtech

Taiwan’s AI stock boom is creating more ways for investors to profit from its chip supply chain, making early-stage startups a tougher pitch. Taiwan’s benchmark Taiex index is up more than 50% this year, making it the world’s best-performing major index after pulling ahead of South Korea’s Kospi. The gains extend well beyond Taiwan Semiconductor