John Authers, Columnist

What Sports Betting Analysis Is Teaching Markets

The next time you bet on sports or stocks, here's a sharper idea of what momentum is with you — and against you.

Sport betting launches in Maryland at MGM National Harbor last December.

Photographer: Shannon Finney/Getty

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Shibboleths are falling all around us. The nuclear rhetoric is amping up once more about Ukraine, the Almighty dollar is pushing other currencies to extremes, and bonds seem to be settling into a new and frightening bear market, just as commodities give every appearance of latching onto a bull market. Stocks continue to veer all over the place. Where to find refuge?