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Crude-oil markets won’t officially open for a few more hours, but traders are already using prediction markets like Kalshi to take bets on where prices will settle on Monday.
Contracts that would pay out if the front-month contract on West Texas Intermediate crude oil settles above $73 a barrel on Monday were recently trading above 90 cents on Kalshi, implying a high likelihood that they would pay out.