What if weak Chinese activity caps LNG import growth and loosens the global gas market?
Weak Chinese industrial and property activity caps LNG import growth, loosening the global gas market and pressuring spot prices and the contracted volumes of major exporters.
how we built this number — every step
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.
What it would mean
If this plays out, it is a mixed shock. Weak Chinese industrial and property activity caps LNG import growth, loosening the global gas market and pressuring spot prices and the contracted volumes of major exporters. The trigger decomposes into signed root‑shocks — Natural gas ▼ · China growth ▼ · Industrial demand ▼ · Oil demand ▼ — 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.
| Market | Class | Projected move | |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Freeport (copper) FCX 📈 chart | Equity | ▼ -0.8% hist -0.54–-0.24% · other way +0.45% (n=11) |
| 2 | Copper XCUon Hyperliquid 📈 chart | Commodity | ▼ -0.6% hist -1.44–+0.22% · other way -0.14% (n=11) |
| 3 | China internet KWEBon Hyperliquid 📈 chart | Equity | ▼ -0.4% hist -0.24–-0.11% · other way -3.08% (n=8) |
| 4 | Alibaba BABAon Hyperliquid 📈 chart | Equity | ▼ -0.3% hist -0.77–+1.09% · other way -2.56% (n=8) |
| 5 | Natural gas NGon Hyperliquid 📈 chart | Commodity | ▼ -0.3% hist -1.03–+1.62% · other way +4.09% (n=11) |
| 6 | Aussie dollar AUD 📈 chart | FX | ▼ -0.2% hist -0.35–+0.01% · other way -1.52% (n=11) |
| 7 | WTI crude CLon Hyperliquid 📈 chart | Commodity | ▼ -0.2% hist -0.47–+0.65% · other way -1.54% (n=11) |
| 8 | Platinum XPTon Hyperliquid 📈 chart | Commodity | ▼ -0.2% hist -0.68–+0.17% · other way -3.26% (n=11) |
| 9 | Palladium XPDon Hyperliquid 📈 chart | Commodity | ▼ -0.2% hist -2.41–+0.73% · other way -0.97% (n=11) |
| 10 | Chinese yuan CNY 📈 chart | FX | ▼ -0.2% hist -0.21–+-0.0% · other way -0.69% (n=11) |
Probable recommendation
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.
| Asset | History says | Abnormal (20d · 5d) | Hit | n | Confidence | vs cascade |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Gold XAU | LONG | +1.5% · 5d +0.1% | 64% | 40 | 0.25 | · |
| 10y yield DGS10 | SHORT | -3bp · 5d +1bp ↺ fades | 64% | 40 | 0.21 | · |
| XCU XCU | SHORT | -1.1% · 5d -0.9% | 61% | 40 | 0.20 | ✓ matches cascade |
| Bitcoin BTC | SHORT | -2.4% · 5d -4.4% | 62% | 34 | 0.20 | · |
| XPD XPD | SHORT | -2.1% · 5d -2.1% | 61% | 40 | 0.18 | ✓ matches cascade |
| XPT XPT | SHORT | -0.6% · 5d +0.6% ↺ fades | 59% | 40 | 0.16 | ✓ matches cascade |
| US dollar DXY | LONG | +0.5% · 5d +0.0% | 57% | 40 | 0.12 | · |
| Volatility VIX | SHORT | -2.5% · 5d -0.5% | 57% | 40 | 0.11 | · |
| CNY CNY | SHORT | -0.1% · 5d -0.1% | 55% | 40 | 0.09 | ✓ matches cascade |
| AUD AUD | SHORT | -0.2% · 5d -0.2% | 52% | 40 | 0.04 | ✓ matches cascade |
| FCX FCX | LONG | +0.1% · 5d +0.2% | 50% | 40 | 0.00 | ⚠ differs |
| KWEB KWEB | LONG | +0.0% · 5d -1.2% ↺ fades | 45% | 35 | 0.00 | ⚠ differs |
| BABA BABA | LONG | +1.3% · 5d -1.6% ↺ fades | 41% | 34 | 0.00 | ⚠ differs |
| NG NG | LONG | +1.8% · 5d -2.6% ↺ fades | 48% | 40 | 0.00 | ⚠ differs |