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Strategies & Market Trends : Predictive Markets

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From: Glenn Petersen9/1/2010 11:20:35 AM
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While not a "market", a useful predictive tool:

Buy Now or Wait? Check the Airfare Prediction Tool

By Mark J. Perry
CARPE DIEM
August 31, 2010

When booking air travel, the dilemma is often: should I buy now or wait later to try to get a better price? Now you've got some help.

The Bing Travel Farecast provides a free airfare prediction tool that allows you to specify your travel dates and destinations, and you'll get a prediction of whether fares for your flight are rising or falling, so you can decide whether you should buy now or wait.

From the Bing website: "According to a third-party audit of our predictive technology, we're about 75% accurate and on average, customers will save over $50 on a typical round-trip transaction."

Here are details on Bing's predictive technology.

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