🏛 Central Banks & Macro risk-off · 1–3 years
A what‑if from the future

What if a global capex downturn hits Japan's capital-goods and automation exporters?

A global capital-expenditure downturn hits Japan's capital-goods and automation exporters, denting earnings and lifting credit costs across the machinery supply chain that regional and megabanks finance.

9%
our model probability
over 1–3 years
prediction markets — wisdom of the crowd
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Empirically anchored 9% · 90% range 2–16% · 40 analogues · measured class growth 100% in 3 yr · 3% held back for the unknown
how we built this number — every step
Measured class rate — growth ≈1.8868/yr → 100% in 3 yr100%
Analyst prior · editorial share 6% of the class6%
Pooled · weight 87%9%
Crowd — no liquid market
Reserve 3% · no extremizing (×1.0)9%
Published9%

The class rate is measured from our dated, sourced event library (decade-normalized Poisson — the full table is public at base_rates.json). The variant’s share within its class is the analyst’s editorial call, published so you can audit it. A wider range means thinner precedent. Full recipe: methodology · scored at Reality Check.

The butterfly cascade

How this trigger trickles across markets, left → right — the root shock, its first‑order moves, then the ripple effects. Drag any node; tap a market for its real price history.

Resolution timeline — how this probability is moving

Our model's odds (gold) over time vs the crowd's (Polymarket, blue), from the past toward the 1–3 years horizon. Each dot is a real macro event that nudged the probability — green pushed it up, red pushed it down. Tap a dot for the source. The gold path is an illustrative reconstruction anchored to today's estimate — real dated events, not a live re-estimate history.

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What it would mean

If this plays out, it is a risk-off shock. A global capital-expenditure downturn hits Japan's capital-goods and automation exporters, denting earnings and lifting credit costs across the machinery supply chain that regional and megabanks finance. The trigger decomposes into signed root‑shocks — Credit spreads ▲ · Global growth ▼ · Industrial demand ▼ · Recession signal ▲ — which propagate through our causal graph to the markets below.

If it happens — the markets it would move

Biggest moves first. Projected moves are cascade-model priors; hist A–B% = what comparable past events actually did (measured abnormal returns), and model prior · unmeasured marks markets with no analogue backing yet. Tap any market for its price history.

MarketClassProjected move
1MicroStrategy MSTRon Hyperliquid 📈 chartEquity▼ -0.7%
hist -4.23–+1.27% · other way +27.34% (n=11)
2High-yield credit HYG 📈 chartRate▼ -0.6%
hist -0.4–-0.14% · other way -0.33% (n=11)
3Financials XLF 📈 chartEquity▼ -0.6%
hist -1.46–+0.19% · other way -0.05% (n=11)
4Freeport (copper) FCX 📈 chartEquity▼ -0.6%
hist -1.36–+0.2% · other way +0.06% (n=11)
5Volatility (VIX) VIXon Hyperliquid 📈 chartVol▲ +0.5%
hist -2.36–+6.64% · other way -6.09% (n=11)
6Solana SOLon Hyperliquid 📈 chartCrypto▼ -0.5%
hist -3.95–+2.1% · other way -3.19% (n=9)
7Bitcoin BTCon Hyperliquid 📈 chartCrypto▼ -0.4%
hist -1.38–+0.55% · other way +6.08% (n=9)
8Nasdaq 100 NDXon Hyperliquid 📈 chartIndex▼ -0.4%
hist -0.24–-0.12% · other way +0.29% (n=11)
9Hyperliquid (HYPE) HYPEon HyperliquidCrypto▼ -0.3%
model prior · unmeasured
10S&P 500 SPXon Hyperliquid 📈 chartIndex▼ -0.3%
hist -0.4–+0.0% · other way -1.07% (n=12)
11JPMorgan JPM 📈 chartEquity▼ -0.3%
hist -2.24–+0.29% · other way +1.69% (n=11)
12Ether ETHon Hyperliquid 📈 chartCrypto▼ -0.3%
hist -3.93–+2.76% · other way +4.1% (n=9)
13Copper XCUon Hyperliquid 📈 chartCommodity▼ -0.2%
hist -3.04–+0.65% · other way +0.73% (n=11)
14Coinbase COINon Hyperliquid 📈 chartEquity▼ -0.2%
hist -6.24–+5.53% · other way +26.15% (n=9)

Probable recommendation

If the scenario above plays out, the probable cross‑asset positioning → a scenario‑conditional read, not personalized investment advice
Cash / hedgeRaise cash and hold the long hedges above; this scenario is net risk-off.
For a common-man portfolio: A typical stock-heavy portfolio is at risk. Consider trimming equities, raising cash, and a small cash hedge.
Also moves (not yet on Hyperliquid): High-yield credit -0.6% · Financials -0.6% · Freeport (copper) -0.6% · JPMorgan -0.3% · Tech sector -0.2%

Historical precedent — what analogous events actually did

Across 40 analogous events (overlap‑weighted), as abnormal returns — market beta stripped, so it's the event's own effect, not the market backdrop. Shown at 20 days (persistent) and 5 days (immediate); ↺ fades = the two horizons disagree. Confidence = consistency × sample × significance.

Greece first EU/IMF bailout 2010-05 Northern Rock bank run 2007-09 Gold tops $4,000 and silver spikes past $50 in historic squeeze 2025-10 Gold tops $3,000 for the first time amid tariff and rate-cut fears 2025-03 Gold tops $2,500 for the first time on Fed rate-cut bets 2024-08 First Republic Bank seized and sold to JPMorgan 2023-05 Regional-bank panic deepens after Signature seizure 2023-03 Kaisa Group offshore default 2021-12 Gold closes above $2,000/oz for the first time 2020-08 WTI crude futures settle negative as demand collapses 2020-04 North Korea sixth nuclear test 2017-09 North Korea 'fire and fury' nuclear scare 2017-08 China-led global 'Black Monday' rout 2015-08 HYG record outflows in 2014 high-yield rout 2014-10 Mt. Gox collapse 2014-02 Mt. Gox halts withdrawals 2014-02 Gold futures velocity-logic flash crash 2014-01 Cyprus deposit bail-in 2013-03 Spain requests EUR100bn bank bailout 2012-06 Bankia nationalised in Spain's banking crisis 2012-05 Gold all-time peak of $1,921/oz 2011-09 Portugal requests EU-IMF bailout 2011-04 Egyptian revolution / Mubarak uprising 2011-01 Greece requests EU/IMF bailout 2010-04 Anglo Irish Bank nationalisation 2009-01 Oil collapses from $147 to the $30s as the GFC craters demand 2008-12 Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac conservatorship 2008-09 IndyMac Bank seized by the Office of Thrift Supervision 2008-07 American Home Mortgage bankruptcy 2007-08 Bear Stearns freezes redemptions on subprime hedge funds 2007-06 New Century Financial bankruptcy 2007-04 HSBC subprime profit warning 2007-02 Turkey lets the lira float 2001-02 Mexico $50bn international rescue package 1995-01 Soviet August coup attempt against Gorbachev 1991-08 Hong Kong Stock Exchange four-day closure after Black Monday 1987-10 Chernobyl disaster 1986-04 Penn Square Bank failure 1982-07 Silver Thursday 1980-03 Gold peaks at $850 1980-01
AssetHistory saysAbnormal (20d · 5d)HitnConfidencevs cascade
JPM JPMSHORT-1.8% · 5d -2.1%72%39 0.38✓ matches cascade
SOL SOLSHORT-3.7% · 5d -7.4%75%8 0.34✓ matches cascade
XCU XCUSHORT-2.6% · 5d -1.1%67%33 0.30✓ matches cascade
XLF XLFSHORT-1.1% · 5d -1.2%64%33 0.24✓ matches cascade
SMH SMHLONG+1.7% · 5d -0.7% ↺ fades64%33 0.23⚠ differs
FCX FCXSHORT-1.0% · 5d -0.1%61%33 0.19✓ matches cascade
ETH ETHSHORT-3.9% · 5d -2.7%62%8 0.16✓ matches cascade
Bitcoin BTCSHORT-1.1% · 5d -1.0%58%12 0.15✓ matches cascade
XPT XPTSHORT-3.6% · 5d -1.5%58%33 0.15✓ matches cascade
10y yield DGS10SHORT-11bp · 5d -5bp57%40 0.15·
Volatility VIXLONG+6.0% · 5d +1.0%57%35 0.13✓ matches cascade
NDX NDXLONG+0.0% · 5d -1.5% ↺ fades57%37 0.12⚠ differs
MSTR MSTRSHORT-3.6% · 5d -3.6%58%33 0.11✓ matches cascade
Gold XAULONG+0.5% · 5d +0.5%55%33 0.09·

Methodology. Probability and impact are anchored to history and scored against what actually happens — wins and losses, in public, at Reality Check. Crowd odds live from Polymarket & Kalshi. By Vikas Singh, Quantitative Strategist. Updated 2026-07-03.