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MarketWatch: Prediction markets, where users bet on the outcome of real-world events, are drawing in young people.
From MarketWatch ● Oct. 22, 2026
Webull will offer perpetual futures contracts next month, partnering with prediction market Kalshi to let eligible U.S. customers bet on crypto.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 20, 2026
Liu and his team took a several-hundred-million-dollar hit earlier this year after a wrong-way bet on diesel and crude prices.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 16, 2026
Bristol Myers Squibb is making a $4.1 billion bet on radiopharmaceutical cancer drugs ahead of a major patent cliff in 2028.
From Barron's ● Oct. 12, 2026
“I wouldn’t bet on any team that fellow Ruth played on,” I says.
From "The Sound and the Fury" by William Faulkner
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