ALBANY, N.Y. (NEWS10) — Some very young floor traders packed into UAlbany’s Broadview Arena for the 2025 Junior Achievement Stock Market Challenge. Five hundred students from 11 schools around ...

The fortunes of the stock market play a big role in shaping the mood of the consumer, and things aren't looking great right ...

The challenge involves giving them $1 million in fake money to invest in the stock market. The Junior Achievement Stock Market Challenge is not Wall Street, but to these kids, it may as well be.

Instead of Wall Street, it was the Lufkin Convention Center, the Junior Achievement Stock Market Challenge, and the stockbrokers were young. May and his team placed first in the competition.

“It was an amazing achievement.” And in his second term, he has promised that trend would continue. “The stock market is going to be great,” he told the crowd at an investor conference Feb. 1 ...

President Donald Trump has made history in a number of different ways, but this is one he probably would have preferred to give a miss.