Daily coverage · Weekly briefing Mondays · Ethan Caldwell
Kalshi, Polymarket and event contracts. What the odds say about the Fed, CPI, elections and market structure, and how they resolved.
Kalshi's weekly jobless claims ladder settled with a 194,000 initial claims print clearing only the 190,000 arm as the 195,000 contract that traded at 71 percent resolved no.
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Twelve days before the November 3 midterms, Polymarket prices Democrats to keep the House at 92.5 percent and to sweep both chambers at 66.5 percent, while the heaviest-traded control contract, the Republican-sweep arm, sits at just 7.5 percent.
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Kalshi's December 9 Fed market prices a 14.5% chance the upper bound clears 4.25% after the meeting, a second-step line that settled into a 0.14 to 0.15 band after a volatile month, while Brent crude holds above $108 and WTI sits near $97.
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WTI touched a $110.48 session high after Tuesday's tanker strike in the Strait of Hormuz, yet October Fed hike odds actually slipped to 11.5% on Polymarket and roughly 13% on a Kalshi threshold contract, a telling gap between a crude shock and the rate path.
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Crude jumped to a session high after today's mine strike on two tankers, while Polymarket's blockade-end contract rose 4.0 points to 13.5% at 16:08 UTC, confirming how much of the closure traders had already priced.
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Event markets price the Federal Reserve on hold at 85.5% for the October 28 decision, a modest drift from a week ago, with the hike leg at 14.5% as the strip prices tightening to come by December.
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Polymarket's US-Iran ceasefire continuation ladder prices the lull fading from 94.6 percent this week to a 37.5 percent chance it is still running on December 31, and the steepest step in the strip sits as a no-agreement market points to a closed strait into early November.
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Polymarket prices former army chief Gadi Eizenkot at 48.2 percent to be Israel's next prime minister against Netanyahu at 28.5 percent, eight days before the October 27 vote and as President Trump endorses the incumbent.
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After September CPI kept inflation at 3.7%, event markets price an October Fed hold near 88% and lean toward a December hike, with the 2-year backing the path.
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Polymarket prices a hold at 86.5 percent for the October 27 to 28 FOMC while CME FedWatch futures swing to a coin flip, and the gap is instrument structure, not disagreement about the Fed.
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Polymarket's 'US x Iran ceasefire continues through October 15' contract settled YES at its 03:59 UTC close on October 16, paying out the tracked odds calls at 77.5 percent and 86.5 percent even as the naval and sanctions war around Iran ran on undiminished.
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Today's 1.3% producer price jump held the October Fed decision market at a 72.5% no-change reading, but pushed Polymarket's October CPI market to price 3.7% annual at 68.5%, and a 13.0% tail on 3.9%, the clearest read on whether the September energy spike persists.
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