What if Diesel-led freight inflation: distillate squeeze lifts core goods?
A distillate refining squeeze spikes diesel and freight costs, passing through to core goods prices and pressuring margins across logistics-heavy sectors.
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 6–18 months 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 risk-off shock. A distillate refining squeeze spikes diesel and freight costs, passing through to core goods prices and pressuring margins across logistics-heavy sectors. The trigger decomposes into signed root‑shocks — Consumer spending ▼ · Diesel ▲ · Inflation surprise ▲ · Oil supply risk ▲ · Risk appetite ▼ — 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 | Brent crude BRENTon Hyperliquid 📈 chart | Commodity | ▲ +1.8% hist +0.24–+1.24% · other way -1.15% (n=12) |
| 2 | WTI crude CLon Hyperliquid 📈 chart | Commodity | ▲ +1.5% hist -0.95–+1.41% · other way +2.17% (n=12) |
| 3 | Energy sector XLEon Hyperliquid 📈 chart | Equity | ▲ +1.1% hist -0.2–+1.84% · other way +0.47% (n=12) |
| 4 | Nasdaq 100 NDXon Hyperliquid 📈 chart | Index | ▼ -0.7% hist -0.83–-0.04% · other way +0.13% (n=12) |
| 5 | Solana SOLon Hyperliquid 📈 chart | Crypto | ▼ -0.7% hist -0.82–+1.58% · other way -1.62% (n=10) |
| 6 | United Airlines UAL 📈 chart | Equity | ▼ -0.9% hist -2.5–+6.11% · other way +5.49% (n=12) |
| 7 | MicroStrategy MSTRon Hyperliquid 📈 chart | Equity | ▼ -0.7% hist -1.94–+3.6% · other way +16.28% (n=12) |
| 8 | ExxonMobil XOM 📈 chart | Equity | ▲ +0.8% hist -0.55–+2.49% · other way -2.14% (n=12) |
| 9 | Hyperliquid (HYPE) HYPEon Hyperliquid | Crypto | ▼ -0.6% model prior · unmeasured |
| 10 | Chevron CVX 📈 chart | Equity | ▲ +0.7% hist -0.33–+1.9% · other way -0.11% (n=12) |
| 11 | Delta DAL 📈 chart | Equity | ▼ -0.8% hist -1.12–+2.75% · other way +5.38% (n=12) |
| 12 | Ether ETHon Hyperliquid 📈 chart | Crypto | ▼ -0.5% hist -0.88–+0.09% · other way +5.3% (n=10) |
| 13 | Tech sector XLK 📈 chart | Equity | ▼ -0.5% hist -0.42–-0.11% · other way +0.17% (n=12) |
| 14 | Volatility (VIX) VIXon Hyperliquid 📈 chart | Vol | ▲ +0.4% hist -0.59–+2.69% · other way -10.38% (n=12) |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 10y yield DGS10 | LONG | +16bp · 5d +9bp | 64% | 40 | 0.27 | ✓ matches cascade |
| COIN COIN | LONG | +7.5% · 5d +1.4% | 65% | 25 | 0.26 | ⚠ differs |
| Volatility VIX | LONG | +2.2% · 5d +3.6% | 65% | 32 | 0.25 | ✓ matches cascade |
| DAL DAL | LONG | +2.8% · 5d +0.0% | 63% | 31 | 0.24 | ⚠ differs |
| High-yield credit HYG | SHORT | -0.7% · 5d -0.2% | 65% | 31 | 0.22 | · |
| 30y yield DGS30 | LONG | +16bp · 5d +8bp | 60% | 40 | 0.20 | ✓ matches cascade |
| CVX CVX | LONG | +1.4% · 5d +0.2% | 60% | 40 | 0.19 | ✓ matches cascade |
| UAL UAL | LONG | +6.0% · 5d +0.1% | 61% | 31 | 0.18 | ⚠ differs |
| SOL SOL | LONG | +1.7% · 5d -6.7% ↺ fades | 62% | 26 | 0.16 | ⚠ differs |
| XOM XOM | LONG | +2.0% · 5d -0.1% ↺ fades | 58% | 40 | 0.16 | ✓ matches cascade |
| NDX NDX | SHORT | -0.4% · 5d -1.0% | 58% | 33 | 0.13 | ✓ matches cascade |
| ARM ARM | SHORT | -3.9% · 5d -6.9% | 61% | 10 | 0.13 | ✓ matches cascade |
| US dollar DXY | LONG | +0.3% · 5d +0.3% | 57% | 40 | 0.13 | ✓ matches cascade |
| Bitcoin BTC | SHORT | -0.9% · 5d -2.9% | 56% | 30 | 0.09 | ✓ matches cascade |