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How The Betting Odds For Trump, Biden Fluctuated On Election Night
Wednesday, November 4, 2020 - 11:15am | 349The 2020 presidential election is still not decided. As states were called Tuesday night, the betting odds for President Donald Trump and former Vice President Joe Biden shifted drastically. What To Know: Biden entered election night as the odds on favorite to win the 2020 presidential election. On...
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Lessons To Learn From George Soros' $1 Billion Election-Trade Loss
Friday, January 13, 2017 - 3:59pm | 619There’s no question that billionaire hedge fund manager George Soros has been one of the most successful investors in history. In fact, Soros is one of the 30 richest people in the world, according to Bloomberg. However, nobody’s perfect when it comes to predicting financial markets,...
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Which Candidate Are Gamblers Betting On In November?
Sunday, October 9, 2016 - 1:25pm | 391A pair of new election polls out on Friday shows Democrat Hillary Clinton leading Republican Donald Trump in an extremely close race. A Quinnipiac poll puts Clinton’s lead at 5 percent, and a Rasmussen poll shows it at only 1 percent. An LA Times/USC Tracking poll, on the other hand, has...
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The Brexit Market
Monday, June 20, 2016 - 12:59pm | 687Investors around the world were greeted with a sharply higher stock market on Monday for one reason: The odds of Great Britain exiting the European Union this week declined ahead of Thursday's vote. Over the weekend, odds favoring an exit on the gambling exchange Betfair plunged from a 40...
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Twitter Launches TV Conversation Targeting to Snatch Up Even More Advertising Dollars
Friday, November 22, 2013 - 2:21pm | 621It’s called TV Conversation Targeting and it’s Twitter's (NYSE: TWTR) latest and greatest new way to let advertisers target people who have tweeted about a certain show according to a company blog post Thursday. Only in this case, the targeting can occur even if the advertiser in question hasn’...