Russian sanctions bill becoming law holds above 50 percent

Name: Russian sanctions bill becoming law holds above 50 percent
Creator: ClearMarket
Published: 2026-07-31T00:00:00.000Z
License: https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/

Kalshi 58%

record: CMSIG2026073107 | category: pre-event-pricing | target: CM-EVT-C6SL3Y8HY3 | published: 2026-07-31

4-bullet brief | narrative

Kalshi prices 58% on a Russian sanctions bill becoming law.
Bipartisan Senate momentum for the Graham-led act, timed alongside escalating Russia attacks on Kyiv, gives the bill a better-than-even shot per Kalshi.
Secondary tariff implications for India and China add geopolitical complexity that could complicate White House sign-off, a key unresolved variable keeping the odds below 70%.
Kalshi resolves via White House official confirmation of enactment; presidential signature is the final gate and the 42% NO side reflects that uncertainty.

atomic briefs | structured for retrieval

[01] news_event

significance

surfaced in the daily Exa news-cycle scan; mechanically matched to an active kalshi market

story: US senators are advancing the Graham Sanctioning Russia and Iran Act of 2026, which would impose 100% secondary tariffs on countries buying Russian energy including India and China.exa_search → Erin Hale · as_of 2026-08-01T09:54:52+00:00
publisher: Erin Hale
published_at: 2026-07-31T00:00:00.000Z
source_url: https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2026/7/31/how-us-senate-russia-sanctions-could-spell-100-tariffs-for-india-china

[02] pm_response

interp: Kalshi at 58% reflects a genuine legislative path with bipartisan backing but meaningful execution risk at the executive level.llm_judge_cm_signal_v1

evaluation

News-cycle wires publish on coverage, not editorial selection — the day’s top stories matched to the prediction markets pricing them, so nothing is cherry-picked.

judge_engine: none — deterministic news-cycle scan
judge_verdict: auto_published
judge_confidence: n/a — no judge gate (deterministic publishing)
prompt_template: news_cycle_v1 github · auditable
match_method: entity_slug_match (mechanical)

citation graph

Every wire traces back to the ClearMarket event it is built on, and out to each venue’s own market page — so any figure here can be verified at its source.

internal

cm_event: /events/kxsanctionrussia-26jan01/

external

venue_a: https://kalshi.com/markets/KXSANCTIONRUSSIA-26JAN01-27

programmatic access · four surfaces, same payload

AI grounded search reads embedded JSON-LD in HTML. Developers query REST. Agentic AI clients (Claude Desktop, Cursor) call MCP tools. AI crawlers index via /llms.txt. Same canonical record at every surface.

HTML	browsers, AI grounded search, crawlers (contains embedded JSON-LD `@type: Dataset`)	`https://clearmarket.fyi/signals/russia-sanctions-bill-signed-into-law-kalshi-58-2026-07-31/`
JSON	REST API for developers	`https://clearmarket.fyi/signals/russia-sanctions-bill-signed-into-law-kalshi-58-2026-07-31.json`
MCP	agentic AI tool call (Claude Desktop, Cursor, Continue)	`clearmarket.get_signal("russia-sanctions-bill-signed-into-law-kalshi-58-2026-07-31")`
AGENT	AI crawler discovery index	`/llms.txt`

 PM data: platform APIs (hourly refresh). News context: retrieved with source citations. Editorial judgment: LLM judge with prompt template versioned per wire type. Per-claim provenance inline above; full per-field provenance map at the JSON endpoint under field_provenance.
  raw JSON record · same payload returned by REST endpoint
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    "Secondary tariff implications for India and China add geopolitical complexity that could complicate White House sign-off, a key unresolved variable keeping the odds below 70%.",
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   PROVENANCE PROTOCOL v0.2 · [direct] venue api · [mediated] grounded web fetch + source url · [derived] computed from listed inputs · [editorial] versioned llm judgment · full spec /schema/provenance/v1

record CMSIG2026073107 published 2026-07-31T00:00:00.000Z signature sha256-21f7a2433e5… ← underlying event all signals →