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DraftKings Stock Jumps As Its Prediction-Market Bet Hits A Critical Test

DraftKings Stock Jumps As Its Prediction-Market Bet Hits A Critical Test

DraftKings Inc. shares rose 5.3% on Wednesday, bouncing from the prior session’s slide as investors weighed fresh signs that the sports-betting company is pushing deeper into federally regulated prediction markets. The stock was at $25.07 in late trading, up $1.26 from Tuesday’s close. It opened at $23.85, traded as high as $25.32 and drew volume of about 11.8 million shares, while FanDuel parent Flutter Entertainment rose 2.0%. The Invesco QQQ Trust, a proxy for large Nasdaq technology shares, slipped 0.1%.
27 May 2026
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Bitcoin Near $78,000 Is Rewiring Online Casinos in 2026 as $2 Deposits Become the New Battleground

Bitcoin Near $78,000 Is Rewiring Online Casinos in 2026 as $2 Deposits Become the New Battleground

Crypto casinos are doubling down on attracting lower-stakes players. In an April 23 update, Crypto Adventure bumped Rakebit to the top of its list for small deposits, edging out Coins.Game, Jackbit, Flush, and Rainbet as Bitcoin hovered near $77,793. The revised ranking points to a shift by 2026: it’s not just about the biggest bonus banner anymore—first deposit amounts are the new competitive front. This is landing at a moment that couldn’t suit crypto-first firms better. Bitcoin’s trading just under $78,000, and starting April 1, Britain’s remote gaming duty shot up to 40%, tightening the screws for traditional bookmakers. That bump in tax makes it simpler for upstarts to tout smaller sign-up deals.
23 April 2026
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UK Stock Market Today: FTSE 100 Rises as Miners Rally, Morgan Sindall Jumps and easyJet Slides

UK Stock Market Today: FTSE 100 Rises as Miners Rally, Morgan Sindall Jumps and easyJet Slides

The FTSE 100 edged up roughly 0.2% to 10,579 by Thursday morning, lifted mostly by gains in mining and financial shares as optimism for dialogue between Washington and Tehran calmed nerves. The mid-cap FTSE 250 outperformed, too. Shares of Morgan Sindall popped, while easyJet slipped on a downbeat outlook for bookings and fuel expenses. London’s rebound carried weight after the FTSE 100 shed 0.5% on Wednesday—its sharpest single-day slide in over a week. Early earnings reports started trickling in, laying bare how the Middle East conflict is carving up sectors: builders and miners catching a lift, while airlines and consumer names took a hit.
16 April 2026
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Kalshi’s $100 Million “Combos” Ignite a Parlay Race With Polymarket in U.S. Sports Betting

Kalshi’s $100 Million “Combos” Ignite a Parlay Race With Polymarket in U.S. Sports Betting

Kalshi revealed its new “Combos” product for multi-leg sports bets hit over $100 million in trading volume in just one week—a rare peek into the rapid growth of prediction markets in sports. Parlays, which pay out only if every leg wins, made up 63% of New Jersey’s online sports betting revenue through October. Both Kalshi and competitor Polymarket are racing to roll out similar offerings. Polymarket has dangled a $50 bonus for its first multi-leg bet launch. Meanwhile, DraftKings and Flutter’s FanDuel have launched prediction products in states where online sports betting remains banned, though execs remain skeptical that exchanges can rival sportsbooks’ “breadth of choice,” often dismissing them as “structurally limited.” Bank of America analysts estimated back in November that prediction markets now account for 3% to 8% of the legal U.S. online sports betting market — still small, but no longer on the sidelines. Adam Rivers, a managing director at Alvarez & Marsal, pointed to the absence of “the same range of exotic bets” seen at sportsbooks, highlighting “same-game parlays” as a key gap. Shaun Kelley from BofA has dubbed parlays the industry’s “killer app,” yet exchanges face the challenge of building enough liquidity for each leg and
16 January 2026
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Bet365 bonus code push: $365 Missouri offer and $150 NFL Week 18 deal highlight costly U.S. expansion

Bet365 bonus code push: $365 Missouri offer and $150 NFL Week 18 deal highlight costly U.S. expansion

Bet365 is offering a $365 sign-up bonus to new customers in Missouri ahead of the NFL’s Week 18 slate, stepping up promotions as it pushes deeper into the United States. The offer pays out in “bonus bets” — free wagers credited to a customer’s account — after a first $10 bet, CBS Sports reported. Cbssports The timing matters because Week 18 is one of the busiest weekends on the U.S. sports betting calendar, with playoff berths and seeding still in play. Sportsbooks often use bonuses to pull in first-time bettors quickly, even if it dents near-term margins.
5 January 2026
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Polymarket’s U.S. Comeback: Shayne Coplan, UFC Deal and the New Arms Race in Blockchain Prediction Markets

Polymarket’s U.S. Comeback: Shayne Coplan, UFC Deal and the New Arms Race in Blockchain Prediction Markets

When Shayne Coplan started Polymarket in 2020, he didn’t have a team, a war chest of venture capital, or a Wall Street pedigree. What he did have was a laptop, conviction in blockchain technology, and an idea: let markets, not pundits, price the future.CoinDesk+1 Speaking this week at Cantor Fitzgerald’s crypto, AI and blockchain conference in Miami, Coplan described how open blockchain rails meant a solo founder could spin up a venue where anyone in the world could trade on real‑world events — elections, central‑bank moves, even celebrity gossip — using stablecoins.CoinDesk
13 November 2025
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