The House on Wednesday passed a bill that would ban members of Congress from trading individual stocks.
Elon Musk's space exploration company has filed preliminary paperwork to sell shares to the public, according to two sources familiar with the filing.
The Dow Jones Industrial Average on Thursday closed down 785 points as the war with Iran escalated and oil prices continued to climb.
The Dow Jones Industrial Average closed down more than 400 points on Tuesday as the U.S.-Israeli war with Iran prompted a selloff.
Oil prices leaped Monday on worries that war with Iran could clog the global flow of crude and make inflation even worse. U.S. stocks, meanwhile, swung from sharp losses to a tiny gain.
The selloff came in the first trading session since Trump floated the levies.