PANews reported on January 2nd that Yahoo Finance released its list of four major questions for 2026, including:

1. Tech giants defy the AI bubble theory: Despite ongoing discussions about an AI bubble and renewed investor skepticism about spending on data infrastructure, tech giants have not changed course.

2. The inevitable chaos that will ensue with the next Federal Reserve chairman could cast a shadow over any future progress in inflation.

3. The prediction market boom has also brought opposition. Not wanting to be outdone by Robinhood, Coinbase partnered with Kalshi to allow users to trade on the outcomes of real-world events. The growth and popularity of prediction markets offers a novel way to measure sentiment, but it has also raised questions about misconduct, the probability coverage of outcomes, and the encroachment of new financial instruments into more aspects of our lives.

4. The expansion of Musk's "trade" empire and the listing of SpaceX are noteworthy, forming a clever "reverse operation" with his privatization of SpaceX.