U.S. stock futures were mixed on Wednesday after a higher close on Tuesday. Futures of major benchmark indices were mixed. Investors are bracing for a heavy slate of economic releases, including the ADP employment report and ISM services index,

Major stock indexes finished mostly lower Wednesday, with the Dow Jones Industrial Average and S&P 500 reversing course after setting fresh all-time highs.

Garrett Toay with AgTraderTalk attributes the rally mostly to corrective buying after a $1.40 break from the highs in soybeans. Traders are also short in the wheat market, which just came off of contract lows in SRW futures.

An effort to ban insider trading by officials privy to nonpublic government business using prediction markets has picked up a key endorsement.

Oil futures opened the year with a modest decline as the continuing Ukraine-Russia war and rising Middle East tensions countered concerns about oversupply.

Major stock indexes ended lower for a fourth straight session on the final trading day of 2025, although they posted double-digit gains for the year.

Coinbase is pushing further beyond its cryptocurrency roots with an agreement to acquire The Clearing Company, a startup focused on prediction markets infrastructure.