Traders Say 63% Chance That Bush Pardons Libby

Meanwhile, the online futures exchange Intrade.com has offered Libby pardon futures.

"There's good interest in the market already," John Delaney, the Intrade chief executive, said by telephone from Dublin. He said traders so far had collectively predicted a 23 percent chance of a pardon by the end of 2007 and 63 percent by the end of President Bush's term.

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