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Kalshi has asked the Securities and Exchange Commission to hold off on approving new binary options contracts from Cboe Global Markets tied to corporate earnings metrics, arguing the products would compete with event contracts Kalshi already offers. In a letter sent this month, Kalshi said the SEC should wait until a broader effort to clarify regulatory lines between the SEC and the Commodity Futures Trading Commission is finished. The dispute reverses earlier industry debates in which Cboe and CME Group argued prediction market products were approved too quickly by the CFTC. Kalshi operates its contracts under CFTC oversight, while Cboe sought SEC approval for its proposed binary options tied to corporate performance metrics. Kalshi is separately seeking CFTC approval for new perpetual equity futures that could compete with Cboe's S&P 500 options.

President Donald Trump said US regulators are working to bring Hyperliquid, a fast-growing crypto platform, into the country, offering one of the clearest signals yet that the White House wants to pull a major piece of the industry's offshore market infrastructure onshore. Trump said at a White House event that he understands Commodity Futures Trading Commission Chairman Michael Selig is working to bring Hyperliquid into the United States in a fully compliant and legal fashion. Shares of Hyperliquid Strategies, which trades under the ticker PURR, jumped as much as 31% Wednesday, while shares of mainstream US exchange operators fell to session lows, with Cboe Global Markets declining as much as 6.1% and CME Group falling as much as 3.4%. Hyperliquid is a crypto exchange best known for perpetual futures, and the CFTC has recently laid out conditions under which regulated US platforms can offer such contracts as part of a broader Trump administration effort to move crypto businesses and trading activity into the American financial system.

The Roundhill S&P 500 0DTE Covered Call Strategy ETF’s 32.5% trailing yield overstates its sustainable income, with realistic ongoing returns expected in the low 20s given current low volatility. The fund’s headline yield was inflated by two large year-end distributions in December 2025 totaling over $3.40 per share, and stripping those out brings the forward estimate to roughly $2.22 annualized based on recent weekly payments. With the VIX near 16, well below its trailing 12-month average, option premiums have compressed across the 0DTE fund family, including the Roundhill Innovation-100 0DTE Covered Call Strategy ETF and the Roundhill Russell 2000 0DTE Covered Call Strategy ETF. XDTE matched SPY’s 21% total return over the past year, but its covered call cap means it will lag in strong rallies. Investors should size positions expecting a run rate closer to the low 20s rather than the low 30s, treating anything above that as a bonus from a future volatility spike.

The financial sector gained 8.66% in the second quarter of 2026, as measured by the State Street Financial Select Sector SPDR ETF, but underperformed the broader S&P 500's 13.16% return. Robinhood Markets was the biggest winner in the financial sector during Q2, soaring 53.90%, while CME Group was the biggest detractor, declining 25.79%. Other top gainers included Franklin Resources, up 45.22%, and Interactive Brokers, up 36.66%, while Intercontinental Exchange fell 21.56% and Cboe Global Markets lost 14.04%. Analyst Ian Bezek noted that prediction markets drove many of the quarter's biggest movers, with Robinhood and Interactive Brokers benefiting from event contracts, while traditional exchanges faced concerns about losing market share.

Cboe Global Markets shares have plunged from $370 to around $250 over the past month as Wall Street repriced the stock on competitive fears, even though the company posted one of its best quarters ever. The world's largest options exchange reported first-quarter adjusted earnings of $3.70 per share, beating estimates by 9%, on net revenue of $729 million versus a $688 million consensus, with operating margins expanding to 72.4% from 66.0% a year ago. Management raised full-year organic revenue growth guidance to low double-digit to mid-teens and cut operating expense guidance to $838-853 million, while announcing a strategic realignment that will reduce the workforce by 20%. Analysts have revised current-year EPS estimates up nine times in the past 60 days with no downgrades, pushing the full-year consensus from $12.44 to $13.34, yet the stock was driven down by concerns over CFTC approval of perpetual futures for Kalshi and Schwab's plans for a binary options product. Cboe pushed back, noting its SPX options ecosystem took decades to build and cannot be replicated overnight, and it is moving into event markets itself with securities-based XSP event contracts in the pipeline.

Cboe Global Markets is confronting rising competition after new leveraged single-stock ETFs and other rival products were launched. Recent regulatory changes, including the Commodity Futures Trading Commission's approval of perpetual futures, are challenging Cboe's existing business model. The company is reported to be restructuring its organization to respond, which may introduce execution risks and near-term revenue pressure. The stock trades around $249.1, with the share price down 15.5% over the past week and 31.0% over the past month, while remaining up 11.5% over the past year and 118.7% over five years.

CME Group has sued the Commodity Futures Trading Commission over its approval of regulated crypto perpetual futures, arguing that Kalshi’s Bitcoin perpetual should be treated as a swap rather than a futures contract. The exchange contends that classifying the product as a swap would push it into a more restrictive, institution-facing rulebook, making it harder to launch and distribute to retail traders. The CFTC called the suit frivolous and said it looks forward to dismissing it. The legal challenge reflects unease among incumbent exchanges like CME and ICE, whose business models rely on recurring trading and clearing fees from expiring futures contracts, a revenue stream that perpetuals—which do not expire—threaten to disrupt. Shares of CME, Cboe, and ICE fell when regulators opened a compliant path for U.S. perpetuals, signaling investor concern over real competition.