Mansour pitches “index of political power” as S&P Dow Jones Indices bets on Kalshi data

S&P Dow Jones Indices (S&P DJI) and Kalshi have announced that they will tie official index values to new event contracts. They also plan to build benchmarks tracking politics, economics and sports, lending the prediction market Wall Street’s credibility as several states fight to shut parts of it down. Kalshi co-founder and CEO Tarek Mansour wrote on X that S&P Dow Jones Indices and Kalshi have “joined forces to build the next generation of financial markets.” Mansour invoked the 1896 debut of the Dow and the S&P 500’s 1957 launch as the lineage he wants to join. However, the foundation under that pitch, though, is being contested in courtrooms across the country. What did S&P DJI and Kalshi actually agree to?

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