probability

Money markets price in a 95% probability of a 25-basis-point ECB rate hike in September, according to LSEG, which would bring the deposit rate to 2.50%.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 21, 2026

Based on their results, the probability of such a crash currently is actually below average.

From MarketWatch ● Aug. 17, 2026

“It’s a low probability, but the consequences are so enormous that you’ve got to factor it in,” said Jane Swanson, president of Mothers for Peace, a San Luis Obispo-based nonprofit, in a recent phone call.

From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 16, 2026

Telegram channels -- sifting through intelligence data -- close the information gap, putting out daily forecasts on the probability of different types of attacks.

From Barron's ● Aug. 16, 2026

If the spinner is spun one hundred times and the letters recorded, the probability that the word cat or warm will appear is very small, but the probability of some word’s appearing is high.

From "Innumeracy: Mathematical Illiteracy and Its Consequences" by John Allen Paulos

But investing is a matter of probabilities, and the stock market in September has the lowest probability of gain of any throughout the year.

From MarketWatch ● Aug. 13, 2026

The balance of probabilities looks tilted toward a rate rise over the next six months or so, she said.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 31, 2026

And the commission found that "on the balance of probabilities, Everton's breach of the PSR caused Burnley to be relegated".

From BBC ● Jun. 10, 2026

Forecasts from the WMO global network "indicate a pronounced shift toward El Nino conditions, with probabilities reaching 80 percent for June-August", the Geneva-based organisation said.

From Barron's ● Jun. 2, 2026

Geneticists use these Punnett squares to determine inheritance, recessive and dominant genes, probabilities and chance.

From "Wonder" by R. J. Palacio