{"id":236276,"date":"2025-12-18T12:30:00","date_gmt":"2025-12-18T17:30:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ibkrcampus.com\/campus\/?p=236276"},"modified":"2025-12-18T13:08:04","modified_gmt":"2025-12-18T18:08:04","slug":"rubio-doesnt-stand-a-chance-in-2028s-primary-dec-18-2025","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.interactivebrokers.com\/campus\/traders-insight\/forecast-trader\/rubio-doesnt-stand-a-chance-in-2028s-primary-dec-18-2025\/","title":{"rendered":"Rubio Doesn\u2019t Stand a Chance in 2028\u2019s Primary?: Dec. 18, 2025"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Yesterday\u2019s trading on ForecastEx featured 3.3 million contracts being transacted with the most popular themes including the daily high temperatures across US cities, futures prices of the S&amp;P 500, Nasdaq 100 and Dow Jones Industrial indices and the Bitcoin and Solana cryptocurrencies. But two other topics that made the list of 10k instruments or more being traded during the December 17 session included who the Republican Party will nominate for US President in 2028 as well as the US Dollar Japanese Yen currency pair. Indeed, there were 31 separate transactions of Secretary of State Marco Rubio going through with \u201cNo\u201d prices ranging from $0.90 to $0.99 across the 17.5k contracts exchanged. Someone is essentially taking the position of the former Florida senator not standing a chance in the primary. Meanwhile, the USD\/JPY saw 11.8k contracts change hands, likely a result of the nation\u2019s interest rate decision later tonight, which is heavily expected to feature a hike. Indeed, the commentary for future moves could certainly shift foreign exchange markets.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img decoding=\"async\" width=\"1100\" height=\"477\" data-src=\"https:\/\/www.interactivebrokers.com\/campus\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2025\/12\/Picture4-1100x477.png\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-236280 lazyload\" data-srcset=\"https:\/\/ibkrcampus.com\/campus\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2025\/12\/Picture4-1100x477.png 1100w, https:\/\/ibkrcampus.com\/campus\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2025\/12\/Picture4-700x303.png 700w, https:\/\/ibkrcampus.com\/campus\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2025\/12\/Picture4-300x130.png 300w, https:\/\/ibkrcampus.com\/campus\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2025\/12\/Picture4-768x333.png 768w, https:\/\/ibkrcampus.com\/campus\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2025\/12\/Picture4.png 1401w\" data-sizes=\"(max-width: 1100px) 100vw, 1100px\" src=\"data:image\/svg+xml;base64,PHN2ZyB3aWR0aD0iMSIgaGVpZ2h0PSIxIiB4bWxucz0iaHR0cDovL3d3dy53My5vcmcvMjAwMC9zdmciPjwvc3ZnPg==\" style=\"--smush-placeholder-width: 1100px; aspect-ratio: 1100\/477;\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img decoding=\"async\" width=\"1100\" height=\"80\" data-src=\"https:\/\/www.interactivebrokers.com\/campus\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2025\/12\/Picture3-1100x80.png\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-236279 lazyload\" data-srcset=\"https:\/\/ibkrcampus.com\/campus\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2025\/12\/Picture3-1100x80.png 1100w, https:\/\/ibkrcampus.com\/campus\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2025\/12\/Picture3-700x51.png 700w, https:\/\/ibkrcampus.com\/campus\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2025\/12\/Picture3-300x22.png 300w, https:\/\/ibkrcampus.com\/campus\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2025\/12\/Picture3-768x56.png 768w, https:\/\/ibkrcampus.com\/campus\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2025\/12\/Picture3.png 1395w\" data-sizes=\"(max-width: 1100px) 100vw, 1100px\" src=\"data:image\/svg+xml;base64,PHN2ZyB3aWR0aD0iMSIgaGVpZ2h0PSIxIiB4bWxucz0iaHR0cDovL3d3dy53My5vcmcvMjAwMC9zdmciPjwvc3ZnPg==\" style=\"--smush-placeholder-width: 1100px; aspect-ratio: 1100\/80;\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\" id=\"h-umich-revision-of-3-8-is-highly-unlikely\"><strong>UMich Revision of +3.8 Is Highly Unlikely<\/strong><\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p>Tomorrow\u2019s University of Michigan (UMich) Consumer Sentiment revision is likely to fall in the normal range of +1 or -1, as a +3.8 upgrade has never occurred. The initial figure of 53.3 is almost certainly not going to exceed 57, and a +3.8 adjustment is what\u2019s required for \u201cTeam No\u201d to lose at that level. 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