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Happy Wednesday. If you’re a fan of commercial real estate, or Netflix’s “Owning Manhattan” (or both), check out Ryan Serhant’s sitdown with CNBC’s Diana Olick.
Stock futures are around flat this morning. The three major indexes finished yesterday’s session little changed.
Here are five key things investors need to know to start the trading day:
Yesterday, Energy Secretary Chris Wright shared — and then deleted — a post on X saying that the U.S. Navy escorted a tanker through the Strait of Hormuz. Oil prices tanked amid hopes of the crude trade normalizing. The problem: The escort didn’t happen.






