🛢 Energy & Commodities mixed · 1–3 years
A what‑if from the future

What if dengue establishes itself in Paris and northern France?

Endemic dengue in northern France is a localized insurer/labor and public-health cost, not a macro mobility-collapse oil shock — the modeled WTI -1.6%/gold +1.1% cascade massively overstates it. Rhymes with the limited market impact of Zika (2016) or autochthonous dengue in southern Europe: regional health-system and reinsurer strain, no global demand hit. Transmission is French health/labor costs and vector-control spend; fade the oil and Fed-easing legs entirely.

27%
our model probability
over 1–3 years
prediction markets — wisdom of the crowd
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Empirically anchored 27% · 90% range 13–41% · 29 analogues · measured class pandemic 92% in 3 yr · 3% held back for the unknown
how we built this number — every step
Measured class rate — pandemic ≈0.8371/yr → 92% in 3 yr92%
Analyst prior · editorial share 33% of the class30%
Pooled · weight 83%28%
Crowd — no liquid market
Reserve 3% · no extremizing (×1.0)28%
Published27%

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 mixed shock. Self-sustaining dengue transmission establishes in metropolitan Paris and northern France, straining health systems and lifting insurer and labor risk. The trigger decomposes into signed root‑shocks — Climate/crop supply ▲ · Pandemic shock ▲ — 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
1WTI crude CLon Hyperliquid 📈 chartCommodity▼ -0.8%
hist -11.42–+1.69% · other way +2.99% (n=11)
2Energy sector XLEon Hyperliquid 📈 chartEquity▼ -0.6%
hist -5.14–+0.25% · other way -0.44% (n=11)
3Gold XAUon Hyperliquid 📈 chartCommodity▲ +0.4%
hist -0.08–+0.74% · other way +0.74% (n=11)
4United Airlines UAL 📈 chartEquity▲ +0.5%
hist -7.09–+2.44% · other way +0.45% (n=11)
5ExxonMobil XOM 📈 chartEquity▼ -0.4%
hist -2.45–+0.7% · other way +0.17% (n=12)
6Chevron CVX 📈 chartEquity▼ -0.4%
hist -0.76–+0.1% · other way -0.57% (n=12)
7Delta DAL 📈 chartEquity▲ +0.4%
hist -4.71–+1.28% · other way +0.18% (n=11)
8Ether ETHon Hyperliquid 📈 chartCrypto▼ -0.2%
hist -1.59–+0.67% · other way +5.4% (n=10)
9MicroStrategy MSTRon Hyperliquid 📈 chartEquity▼ -0.2%
hist -0.74–+0.22% · other way +15.06% (n=11)
10Solana SOLon Hyperliquid 📈 chartCrypto▼ -0.2%
hist -4.06–+3.46% · other way +1.95% (n=10)
1130y Treasury yield DGS30 📈 chartRate▼ -2bp
hist -8.22–+1.42% · other way +17.8% (n=12)
12Hyperliquid (HYPE) HYPEon HyperliquidCrypto▼ -0.2%
model prior · unmeasured
1310y Treasury yield DGS10 📈 chartRate▼ -2bp
hist -8.77–+2.2% · other way +19.8% (n=12)
142y Treasury yield DGS2Rate▼ -1bp
model prior · unmeasured

Probable recommendation

If the scenario above plays out, the probable cross‑asset positioning → a scenario‑conditional read, not personalized investment advice
For a common-man portfolio: Mixed for a typical portfolio — the move is more about rotation than direction. Favour the winners over the losers below rather than net exposure.
Also moves (not yet on Hyperliquid): United Airlines +0.5% · ExxonMobil -0.4% · Chevron -0.4% · Delta +0.4% · 30y Treasury yield -2bp · 10y Treasury yield -2bp

Historical precedent — what analogous events actually did

Across 29 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.

Gold closes above $2,000/oz for the first time 2020-08 Chernobyl disaster 1986-04 Gold tops $4,000 and silver spikes past $50 in historic squeeze 2025-10 H5N1 bird flu record US egg prices 2025-04 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 Offshore yuan hits a record low 2022-11 Tin hits nominal record on LME above $48,000/t 2022-03 Omicron variant Black Friday selloff 2021-11 Vietnam suspends new rice export contracts 2020-03 COVID-19 fourth circuit breaker 2020-03 Saudi-Russia oil price war 2020-03 S&P 500 ends longest bull market with record high before COVID 2020-02 IPBES warns ~1 million species face extinction 2019-05 China's first African Swine Fever outbreak confirmed 2018-08 North Korea sixth nuclear test 2017-09 North Korea 'fire and fury' nuclear scare 2017-08 Ebola US-case market scare 2014-10 Gold futures velocity-logic flash crash 2014-01 Gold all-time peak of $1,921/oz 2011-09 Egyptian revolution / Mubarak uprising 2011-01 2008 global rice / food price crisis peak 2008-04 2008 global rice crisis: Thai benchmark tops $1,000/ton 2008-04 Soviet August coup attempt against Gorbachev 1991-08 Silver Thursday 1980-03 Gold peaks at $850 1980-01 Iran hostage crisis / US freezes Iranian assets 1979-11 Three Mile Island partial meltdown 1979-03 1979 Iranian Revolution oil shock 1979-01
AssetHistory saysAbnormal (20d · 5d)HitnConfidencevs cascade
XLE XLESHORT-3.9% · 5d -1.6%78%22 0.53✓ matches cascade
CL CLSHORT-9.3% · 5d -4.5%71%22 0.40✓ matches cascade
DAL DALSHORT-4.2% · 5d -0.6%67%22 0.30⚠ differs
30y yield DGS30SHORT-6bp · 5d -1bp65%29 0.29✓ matches cascade
ETH ETHSHORT-1.4% · 5d -4.2%66%14 0.28✓ matches cascade
Volatility VIXLONG+16.3% · 5d +3.2%62%23 0.22·
UAL UALSHORT-6.6% · 5d -2.0%62%22 0.21⚠ differs
US dollar DXYSHORT-0.2% · 5d -0.0%62%29 0.21·
10y yield DGS10SHORT-7bp · 5d -3bp60%29 0.19✓ matches cascade
Bitcoin BTCSHORT-1.4% · 5d -4.5%60%17 0.18·
XOM XOMSHORT-2.1% · 5d -1.0%58%29 0.16✓ matches cascade
CVX CVXSHORT-0.5% · 5d -0.2%58%29 0.16✓ matches cascade
Gold XAULONG+0.5% · 5d -0.2% ↺ fades53%22 0.06✓ matches cascade
MSTR MSTRSHORT-0.6% · 5d -3.1%40%22 0.00✓ matches cascade

Why this probability

Local dengue clusters reach France yearly; self-sustaining northern-Paris transmission is the high bar. A base‑rate‑anchored prior, continuously scored against what actually happens — not a forecast.

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.