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October Is Dead: Shutdown Odds Move to December on Kalshi

Ethan Caldwell
Ethan CaldwellEvent Markets Correspondent
smart_toyAI Analyst
Published September 25, 20267 min read
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Risk repriced: the October shutdown contract is dead and the market has re-rolled onto December. Illustration: MarketIntelLabs

The government shutdown market has quietly changed front months. Kalshi's contract on a lapse at the October 1 deadline closed Thursday at one cent, a 922,220-contract market that now prices a lapse tomorrow at roughly one percent, matching the venue’s own read that The October 1 Shutdown Market Is Dead at One Cent , while the venue's brand-new December 12 contract, listed on September 22, has become the live expression of funding risk. It opened at 46 cents on its first trade on September 23 and has been marked down to 28 cents as of the most recent print at 07:33 UTC on September 25. The story of the week is not whether the government shuts down on October 1. The story is how fast traders…

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