What if EM central bank hikes pre-emptively, out-hawking the Fed?
An EM authority front-runs the Fed with a surprise hike to protect its currency and credibility, lifting its real-rate premium and FX while cooling local growth, a credibility-positive, risk-mixed move.
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 mixed shock. An EM authority front-runs the Fed with a surprise hike to protect its currency and credibility, lifting its real-rate premium and FX while cooling local growth, a credibility-positive, risk-mixed move. The trigger decomposes into signed root‑shocks — EM currencies ▲ · FX carry appetite ▲ · Credit spreads ▼ · Real yields ▲ · 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 | Turkish lira TRY 📈 chart | FX | ▲ +0.6% hist -5.85–+1.02% · other way -0.14% (n=10) |
| 2 | Tech sector XLK 📈 chart | Equity | ▼ -0.5% hist -0.52–+0.43% · other way +1.2% (n=11) |
| 3 | Indian rupee INR 📈 chart | FX | ▲ +0.5% hist -0.71–+0.44% · other way +0.65% (n=10) |
| 4 | Nasdaq 100 NDXon Hyperliquid 📈 chart | Index | ▼ -0.5% hist -0.42–+0.14% · other way +1.56% (n=11) |
| 5 | Solana SOLon Hyperliquid 📈 chart | Crypto | ▼ -0.4% hist -5.0–+0.65% · other way +24.08% (n=7) |
| 6 | MicroStrategy MSTRon Hyperliquid 📈 chart | Equity | ▼ -0.4% hist -8.33–+2.17% · other way +8.76% (n=11) |
| 7 | Chinese yuan CNY 📈 chart | FX | ▲ +0.3% hist -0.22–+0.15% · other way -0.48% (n=10) |
| 8 | 30y Treasury yield DGS30 📈 chart | Rate | ▲ +3bp hist -4.81–+3.15% · other way +7.9% (n=11) |
| 9 | Hyperliquid (HYPE) HYPEon Hyperliquid | Crypto | ▼ -0.3% model prior · unmeasured |
| 10 | Gold XAUon Hyperliquid 📈 chart | Commodity | ▼ -0.3% hist -1.13–+0.38% · other way +2.88% (n=10) |
| 11 | 10y Treasury yield DGS10 📈 chart | Rate | ▲ +3bp hist -5.01–+4.11% · other way +6.0% (n=12) |
| 12 | Ether ETHon Hyperliquid 📈 chart | Crypto | ▼ -0.2% hist -7.77–+2.19% · other way +5.0% (n=8) |
| 13 | Bitcoin BTCon Hyperliquid 📈 chart | Crypto | ▼ -0.2% hist -2.38–+0.78% · other way +5.29% (n=8) |
| 14 | Coinbase COINon Hyperliquid 📈 chart | Equity | ▼ -0.2% hist -0.79–+0.23% · other way +4.95% (n=4) |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| TRY TRY | SHORT | -5.0% · 5d -0.5% | 72% | 30 | 0.43 | ⚠ differs |
| SOL SOL | SHORT | -4.0% · 5d -9.2% | 74% | 20 | 0.37 | ✓ matches cascade |
| CNY CNY | SHORT | -0.3% · 5d -0.4% | 68% | 30 | 0.28 | ⚠ differs |
| MSTR MSTR | SHORT | -7.2% · 5d -4.2% | 65% | 32 | 0.24 | ✓ matches cascade |
| INR INR | SHORT | -0.9% · 5d -0.2% | 62% | 30 | 0.23 | ⚠ differs |
| ETH ETH | SHORT | -6.9% · 5d -6.7% | 65% | 22 | 0.20 | ✓ matches cascade |
| ARM ARM | SHORT | -3.0% · 5d -6.2% | 63% | 16 | 0.20 | ✓ matches cascade |
| XHB XHB | SHORT | -0.9% · 5d -1.5% | 62% | 30 | 0.19 | ✓ matches cascade |
| High-yield credit HYG | SHORT | -0.2% · 5d +0.0% ↺ fades | 62% | 30 | 0.18 | · |
| 30y yield DGS30 | SHORT | -6bp · 5d -1bp | 60% | 39 | 0.16 | ⚠ differs |
| Bitcoin BTC | SHORT | -2.1% · 5d -3.2% | 59% | 26 | 0.13 | ✓ matches cascade |
| COIN COIN | SHORT | -0.7% · 5d +0.4% ↺ fades | 56% | 19 | 0.11 | ✓ matches cascade |
| SMH SMH | LONG | +1.4% · 5d -0.6% ↺ fades | 55% | 31 | 0.09 | ⚠ differs |
| XLK XLK | LONG | +0.7% · 5d -0.5% ↺ fades | 53% | 31 | 0.05 | ⚠ differs |