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The Guardian - World News

The Guardian - World News

Title Polymarket and other prediction platforms driving oil market, traders say Source The Guardian - World News
Description

Datafeeds from platforms being used to create algorithms that determine multimillion-dollar trades on global market

Energy traders say online betting platforms are directly driving the global oil market as they increasingly rely on anonymous prediction markets to determine multimillion-dollar trades.

Market experts have said that datafeeds from prediction platforms such as Polymarket are being used to create the algorithms that influence trading in the global Brent crude futures market.

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Link https://www.theguardian.com/business/2026/apr/02/energy-traders-polymarket-prediction-datafeeds-global-oil-market Published At 2026-04-02 00:00:16 (2 days ago)
Created At 2026-04-02 00:32:19 Updated At 2026-04-02 00:32:19