National Journal and Intrade Partnership
NATIONAL JOURNAL GROUP AND Intrade TO LAUNCH INTERACTIVE PREDICTION MARKET COVERING 2008 ELECTIONS AND TOP POLITICAL NEWS

WASHINGTON ? National Journal Group, Washington?s leading publisher of political and policy news and analysis, and Intrade, the leading prediction market allowing people to trade on political, financial, weather and other events, today announced an exciting new online partnership in which Intrade will supply its leading prediction market technology to National Journal Group, allowing readers and users of NationalJournal.com to predict and trade on political news and events from the 2008 election.

National Journal Group and Intrade will now work together to build the online prediction market on topics relevant to National Journal Group?s extensive audience of Washington insiders and political junkies. Once the site is live, the market will be open to the public on NationalJournal.com, and will include information and analysis to inform the users? trades. Users will be able to compete against each other using play money as the currency to predict political and current events.

?Who in Washington doesn?t enjoy making predictions or forecasting the political futures of candidates?? asked Suzanne P. Clark, President of National Journal Group. ?This partnership with Intrade allows us to provide this predictive market to our readers, giving them a fun and exciting way to put their predictions to the test and gauge their political savvy against other insiders.?

?Informing political and policy opinion leaders of the value of prediction markets and capturing their particular wisdom is a victory for the prediction market industry but particularly for new as well as existing users of our markets? said John Delaney, CEO of Intrade. ?When a brand like the National Journal Group adopts prediction markets as part of their service offering it is a good day for all involved.?

More information will follow when the market launches and is available on NationalJournal.com.

ABOUT NATIONAL JOURNAL GROUP

Since 1969, National Journal Group has provided ?insight for insiders? through nonpartisan publications that cover all the power players in Congress, the executive branch, the lobbying world, and beyond.  National Journal Group properties include National Journal, CongressDaily, The Hotline, The Almanac of American Politics, NationalJournal.com and Technology Daily.

ABOUT INTRADE

Intrade is the leading Prediction Market where people can trade on political, financial, weather and other events.  Members trade on unique markets and by so doing generate information on the likelihood of the
underlying event occurring. Intrade and the predictive information generated by its members have been featured on CNBC, CNN, Bloomberg, Fox, Fortune & others. Becoming a member of Intrade gives you profit and hedging opportunity and access to the wisdom of a crowd of many thousands of people from over 120 countries. Intrade News on RSS: http://www.intrade.com/news/newsRss.xml

Press Contacts:

For Intrade:  John Delaney, + 353 1 6200 300,

For National Journal Group:  Susie Bell, 202-266-7747,

Author: Tradesports
Publish Date: Mon, 16 Jul 2007 01:55:20 GMT
Read more...

Source: Tradesports Events
Description: Our premier sports betting exchange