Will the Blues trade Robert Thomas, and where could he end up? Zak Krill / NHLI via Getty Images Will the St. Louis Blues’ Robert Thomas be headed to the Colorado Avalanche or the Utah Mammoth? Will ...

Mick Mulvaney wants to be clear: He really likes gambling. “You're talking to the only former member of Congress who's won a poker tournament in Las Vegas,” he tells WIRED. When he was representing ...

Prediction markets went mainstream in the U.S. in 2025. Robinhood is one of the leaders, with prediction markets becoming its fastest-growing new product ever. Prediction markets will help DraftKings ...

Ben K. downloaded Kalshi in August after the betting app’s turquoise logo caught his attention in an advertisement while he was watching an NHL game. That was the start of a short but destructive ...

The awards season train is pulling into its penultimate stop before heading to the Dolby Theatre. The last stop before Oscar voting closes is often where narratives harden, momentum crystallizes, and ...

Sarah Mills has received funding from The British Academy, ESRC, AHRC, Royal Geographical Society and DCMS. Yes or no? It’s a simple question that now drives more than US$13 billion (£9.7 billion) a ...

A group of Senate Democrats sent a letter Monday to Commodity Futures Trading Commission (CFTC) Chair Michael Selig, urging him to clarify his position on prediction markets. Democratic Sens. Richard ...

Growth in prediction markets is surging as traders seek more precise ways to price and hedge discrete events, from elections to rate decisions, without relying on blunt proxy trades. Prediction ...

Michael Selig oversees a federal agency created to regulate soybean futures. Now he’s helping Americans around the country bet on everything from the Federal Reserve’s interest rate decisions to who ...

Several asset managers have filed for exchange-traded funds that offer direct exposure to election-related prediction markets The proposed ETFs are all tied to prediction markets related to U.S.

Before the NCAA men’s basketball tournament bracket is carved in stone, attempts to anticipate what the final product will look like more closely resemble molten lava. That was made abundantly clear ...

Platforms that let you bet on the outcomes of future events have seen explosive growth recently. Economics correspondent Paul Solman explains how these prediction markets work and why they’re so ...