Remy Blaire: And with midday trade underway, let’s go out to Chicago. FINTECH.TV contributor Errol Coleman joins us live from the trading floor. Hi, Errol. Great to have you back on. So in midday trade, tell us about the activity that you are following.
Errol Coleman: Yeah. Right now I’m looking at the Nasdaq market, and it’s been pretty slow. It’s been a lot of indecisive action that we’ve seen. We have a lot of range-bound markets over the last couple hours of market open. And I mean, yesterday we saw a pretty big sell-off with the AI headlines coming out. And this morning, you know, we’ve seen such a large recovery in the premarket. Today we saw a sell-off back down to the lows and just a lot of indecisive action.
We see a little bit of a bid in oil, with a lot of large buyers stepping in onto the tape at around $90 a barrel. But outside of that, it’s been pretty quiet. And I think a lot of traders and investors are still looking forward to a little bit more follow-through before the market closes here in a few hours, Remy.
Remy Blaire: And Errol, of course, now that we are in Q4 of 2026, all eyes on IPOs. A market-moving event this quarter could be a potential $2 trillion IPO from Anthropic. And looking at prediction markets, what companies do traders expect to hit the markets before year-end?
Errol Coleman: Yeah. No, I know these IPOs are super exciting. I know we had SpaceX’s IPO not too long ago, one of the largest IPOs. And I think that we’re only going to be having more conversations about these massive historical IPOs, especially with prediction markets. So I think, honestly, other names like some of these sports betting companies, some of these other prediction markets like Kalshi, Polymarket, all those other names that are kind of in the same basket.
I think a lot of traders and investors are going to keep an eye out just to see what type of volatility some of those other names might experience. Because, for example, SpaceX has more headlines coming out, and they’re heavily affecting names like Verizon, Amazon, AMC, names you wouldn’t really think about. But because they have things like Starlink, right, it now affects those other businesses. So kind of the same thing with the prediction markets. Kind of curious to see the ripple effect that it’s going to have whenever the IPO launches.
Remy Blaire: Well, Errol, I appreciate your time this afternoon. Thank you so much for joining us, and have a great weekend.
