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Interest rates are rising again, inflation is still sticky, and suddenly the sleepy corner of brokerage cash and margin lending looks anything but boring. When the Fed pushes the benchmark rate to a range of 3.75% to 4%, every idle dollar in a brokerage account and every margin loan starts to matter more to investors and to the brokers themselves. This article walks through three US retail broker-dealer stocks that screen as exposed to these crosscurrents, and explains how higher-for-longer...

Federal prosecutors in Manhattan just charged two former Robinhood engineers over crypto trades, and the fallout is already hitting brokerages that had nothing to do with it.

The Commodity Futures Trading Commission (CFTC), the federal derivatives regulator, filed a lawsuit against the Commonwealth of Kentucky on June 23, 2026, making it the ninth state the agency has sued in an accelerating battle over who gets to regulate prediction markets in the United States. Kentucky had moved the ...