For over a decade and a half, USA populace will welcome the leader of the Catholic Church to their nation. Pope Francis will begin his long week tour to the American continent where he lands in the USA after spending some time in the Caribbean nation of Cuba. He will undertake another journey this time to Africa with East African nations such as Kenya ready to host the pontiff in November. Bookies in the UK have taken this chance to rate the pontiff 7/1 favorite to take home the 2015 Nobel Peace Prize.

However, despite Pope being the favorite to win the award, he takes the third position with two ahead of him. The Nobel Peace award will be presented to one lucky winner by the Norwegian Nobel Committee on the 9^th day of October.

The pontiff who hails from Argentina has been instrument in campaigning in various issues that have affected the globe. He has raised concern over the drastic climate change that has risen in the previous 20 years. He also initiated campaigns based on wealth inequality as well as women rights. In his leadership entity, Pope Francis has criticized gay marriages, abortion as well as divorce among his Catholic congregation.

His tireless efforts have been noticed by many and this has led him being tipped as a Nobel Peace winner favorite. He has undertaken a progressive stand which is based mainly on the modernization of Catholic agenda in a much higher worldwide scale. This has led the media branding him as the “Dope Pope”.

Bookmakers have indicated that this year has a stiff competition to the contestants of the Nobel Peace award with two Africans Father Mussie Zerai of Eritrea who is a refugee rights advocate and Dr Denis Mukwege from the Republic of Congo. The two have been fighting against rape which is currently used as a weapon of war. They share 6/1 rating.

The Nobel Peace Award will be presented at the Norway Stortin (Parliament) and the winner should have accomplished several tasks such as being the leader in nation’s union, eradication of the standing armies as well as being on the front line in advocating for the promotion of peace congresses.

The long awaited event is here with us and it will take six weeks for punters to engage in live betting for the event across all bookmakers. The Rugby World Cup 2015 kicks off this Friday with host England Entertaining mighty Fiji in match one. There are 20 teams in total but the big question is where you as a bettor will place your money?

As per now, many gamblers are betting on England, France, South Africa and New Zealand booking places in the semi finals with the most anticipated final match on 31^st of October sees England take on New Zealand. However, Spreadex thinks that New Zealand will be crowned the tournament’s winner.

The outright Index awards points to teach on basis of their performance and the position they are at the end of the tournament. The winner is awarded 100 points, runners up 80 points, third place 60, fourth place 50, and losers in the quarter finals are accorded with 25 points each while third place and fourth placed teams in the group stages are given 10 and 5 points respectively. On that note, All Blacks lead the platform with 74-77 points whereas host England come in second with 52-55 points.

In essence England will also face Wales (21-24) and Australia (43-46) with only two slots for advancing in the knockout stage. Hence, England must finish at least fourth overall to earn 55 points for a bettor to win. However, many believe that home advantage will propel the team to the semis.

Ireland are not expected by many buyers to reach the semis with 48-51 but punters attention is on South Africa 49-52 and France 37-40. Amazingly, USA who are in the same group with Japan, Scotland, Samoa and South Africa and have index of 1.5-3.0 can pull out a major surprise and if they finish fourth in their group a punter would earn triple his initial wage.

The tournament spread market has been awarded Total Tournament Points spread of 2430-2480 with Total Tournament Tries at 273-283. This is in comparison with three past edition with Total points of 2245 in 2011, 2478 in 2007 while 2835 in 2003. On the other hand, tries of the event were as follows; 262 in 2011, 296 in 2007 and 332 in 2003. This years’ edition can resemble that of 2003 and hence Spreadex has settled for 283 Total Tries.

Synot Group the Eastern European gambling and betting operator has announced that it has made a little investment with Atlas Gaming; a company based in Australia and involves itself with manufacturing machine gaming equipments. This comes as an included deal of a part that involved its previous deal that was stuck between them and South African gambling investment firm Grand Parade Investments (GPI).

The new deal stipulates that The Synot Group investment in Atlas Gaming will oversee itself from its base in Czech being vigorously involved in the distribution of services all across the globe taking the name of Australian manufactures.

Since the Australian manufacture is well known in the world, the company would take this glorious chance in attempt to publicly showcase itself to the world populace and gamers who may end up signing in with them as potential clients if they would be pleased with its products as well as services. However, Synot group was reluctant in giving more information on the terms that would be incorporated as they invested in Atlas Gaming.

The management team based in Atlas Gaming claimed that it is on the verge of expanding its services based on the gaming machine products for its Australian as well as the South African markets. This, it claimed would raise more awareness about the firm and its products to unawares clients and in turn the company would actually increase its revenue.

The new investment for the two companies will give Synot Group a through way channel that would make its products and services familiarized in Eastern Europe.

Miroslav Valenta Jr. who is the Synot Group Sales Director was very pleased with the deal and received his new associates the GPI with open arms claiming that the company has been in existence for a short period and it was about to vanish due to lack of investors. However, his company was much willing to strike a deal that would be a great boost to the firm where it would be popularized in the global markets. He continued to say that this association is not necessarily on investments but looks beyond the acquaintance of new markets for maximization of revenues.