The U.S. Senate on Thursday unanimously passed a rule barring senators from trading on prediction markets effective immediately, CNBC’s Dan Mangan reports. The move came amid rising concern about insider trading on prediction market platforms such as Kalshi and Polymarket, and about event contracts that can involve death or violence, the author notes.
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