Prediction market traders are expecting another strong jobs report on Friday. Following August's bigger-than-expected employment report — where the U.S. added 162,000 jobs during the month — traders on prediction market platform Kalshi think there's a 60% chance the country added more than 90,000 jobs during September. Speculators also think there's almost 50-50 odds that the report is once again in six figures. That's higher than the Dow Jones consensus economist consensus forecast of 84,000. On the contracts, traders are asked whether they think the U.S. added more than a certain number of jobs in the month. The market and its contracts are resolved using official data from the Bureau of Labor Statistics.
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