What if Fed hawkish surprise drives a dollar wrecking-ball across EM?
An unexpectedly hawkish Fed lifts the dollar and real yields, tightening global conditions and pressuring EM currencies and risk in a classic dollar-up, risk-off impulse.
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. An unexpectedly hawkish Fed lifts the dollar and real yields, tightening global conditions and pressuring EM currencies and risk in a classic dollar-up, risk-off impulse. The trigger decomposes into signed root‑shocks — US dollar (DXY) ▲ · EM currencies ▼ · Fed policy path ▲ · 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 | MicroStrategy MSTRon Hyperliquid 📈 chart | Equity | ▼ -2.0% hist -1.42–-0.38% · other way +19.61% (n=12) |
| 2 | Solana SOLon Hyperliquid 📈 chart | Crypto | ▼ -1.4% hist -1.48–+0.87% · other way +5.04% (n=10) |
| 3 | Nasdaq 100 NDXon Hyperliquid 📈 chart | Index | ▼ -1.3% hist -0.87–-0.35% · other way +1.2% (n=12) |
| 4 | Tech sector XLK 📈 chart | Equity | ▼ -1.3% hist -0.86–-0.37% · other way +2.13% (n=12) |
| 5 | Turkish lira TRY 📈 chart | FX | ▼ -1.1% hist -2.07–+0.24% · other way +1.31% (n=11) |
| 6 | Bitcoin BTCon Hyperliquid 📈 chart | Crypto | ▼ -1.1% hist -3.25–+0.77% · other way +0.91% (n=10) |
| 7 | Hyperliquid (HYPE) HYPEon Hyperliquid | Crypto | ▼ -1.0% model prior · unmeasured |
| 8 | Ether ETHon Hyperliquid 📈 chart | Crypto | ▼ -1.0% hist -4.79–+1.41% · other way +6.67% (n=10) |
| 9 | Indian rupee INR 📈 chart | FX | ▼ -0.9% hist -0.62–-0.25% · other way -0.27% (n=11) |
| 10 | Gold XAUon Hyperliquid 📈 chart | Commodity | ▼ -0.9% hist -0.54–+0.61% · other way -1.46% (n=12) |
| 11 | US dollar (DXY) DXYon Hyperliquid 📈 chart | FX | ▲ +0.8% hist +0.18–+0.73% · other way -0.02% (n=12) |
| 12 | EUR/USD EURUSDon Hyperliquid 📈 chart | FX | ▼ -0.7% hist -0.8–-0.09% · other way +0.48% (n=11) |
| 13 | 30y Treasury yield DGS30 📈 chart | Rate | ▲ +7bp hist -1.37–+15.93% · other way +5.9% (n=12) |
| 14 | 10y Treasury yield DGS10 📈 chart | Rate | ▲ +6bp hist -3.12–+19.18% · other way +7.8% (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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| AMD AMD | SHORT | -3.0% · 5d -2.2% | 72% | 38 | 0.35 | ✓ matches cascade |
| MU MU | SHORT | -2.5% · 5d -2.6% | 68% | 38 | 0.33 | ✓ matches cascade |
| CNY CNY | SHORT | -0.5% · 5d -0.2% | 66% | 35 | 0.31 | ✓ matches cascade |
| 30y yield DGS30 | LONG | +11bp · 5d +3bp | 67% | 40 | 0.29 | ✓ matches cascade |
| ARM ARM | SHORT | -4.8% · 5d -5.9% | 70% | 23 | 0.28 | ✓ matches cascade |
| High-yield credit HYG | SHORT | -0.3% · 5d +0.2% ↺ fades | 67% | 34 | 0.26 | ✓ matches cascade |
| Gold XAU | LONG | +0.9% · 5d -0.9% ↺ fades | 63% | 35 | 0.23 | ⚠ differs |
| 10y yield DGS10 | LONG | +15bp · 5d +5bp | 63% | 40 | 0.23 | ✓ matches cascade |
| Volatility VIX | LONG | +2.5% · 5d +1.6% | 63% | 36 | 0.21 | ✓ matches cascade |
| USDJPY USDJPY | LONG | +0.4% · 5d -0.2% ↺ fades | 59% | 35 | 0.16 | ✓ matches cascade |
| SMH SMH | SHORT | -0.2% · 5d -0.7% | 59% | 35 | 0.14 | ✓ matches cascade |
| INR INR | SHORT | -0.1% · 5d +0.1% ↺ fades | 59% | 35 | 0.13 | ✓ matches cascade |
| HOOD HOOD | LONG | +6.8% · 5d -0.2% ↺ fades | 57% | 32 | 0.12 | ⚠ differs |
| GBPUSD GBPUSD | SHORT | -0.5% · 5d -0.3% | 56% | 35 | 0.11 | ✓ matches cascade |