Prediction market PredictIt, which started out as an academic platform focused on political forecasts, is preparing to launch a new exchange after getting the nod from the Commodities Futures Trading ...

Prediction markets are moving into the mainstream, giving investors a new way to watch crowd expectations – and a risky way ...

WASHINGTON, July 23, 2025 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- PredictIt is pleased to announce the favorable resolution of its nearly three-year-long litigation challenging the Commodity Futures Trading Commission's ...

PredictIt, an 11-year-old prediction market that specializes in political offerings and was once legal in the United States because of an affiliation with a New Zealand university, last week became ...

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NEW YORK (Reuters) -- Democratic front-runner Hillary Clinton has a higher probability than her likely Republican rival Donald Trump of becoming the next U.S. president, but the gap between the pair ...

In 2016, Jason Pipkin was working in a biology lab at Brandeis University, authoring papers with titles such as “Mapping the mind of a fly,” when he first heard of PredictIt. It is a website where you ...

Presidential election prediction markets continue to tilt in favor of Vice President Kamala Harris, whose odds have overtaken former President Donald Trump on one betting site for the first time in ...