🏛 Central Banks & Macro risk-off · 6–18 months
A what‑if from the future

What if French political deadlock pushes the OAT-Bund spread above 100bp?

Political deadlock over France's deficit pushes the OAT-Bund spread above 100bp toward periphery levels, with rating downgrades pressuring the second-largest euro sovereign.

10%
our model probability
over 6–18 months
prediction markets — wisdom of the crowd
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Empirically anchored 10% · 90% range 0–25% · 40 analogues · measured class de_dollarization 35% in 18 mo · 3% held back for the unknown
how we built this number — every step
Measured class rate — de_dollarization ≈0.2857/yr → 35% in 18 mo35%
Analyst prior · editorial share 29% of the class10%
Pooled · weight 87%10%
Crowd — no liquid market
Reserve 3% · no extremizing (×1.0)10%
Published10%

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.

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What it would mean

If this plays out, it is a risk-off shock. Political deadlock over France's deficit pushes the OAT-Bund spread above 100bp toward periphery levels, with rating downgrades pressuring the second-largest euro sovereign. The trigger decomposes into signed root‑shocks — Credit spreads ▲ · Dollar/reserve confidence ▼ · 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.

MarketClassProjected move
1Nasdaq 100 NDXon Hyperliquid 📈 chartIndex▼ -1.0%
hist -1.09–-0.14% · other way +0.06% (n=12)
2Tech sector XLK 📈 chartEquity▼ -0.9%
hist -0.71–-0.08% · other way +0.09% (n=12)
3S&P 500 SPXon Hyperliquid 📈 chartIndex▼ -0.7%
hist -0.3–-0.16% · other way +0.04% (n=12)
430y Treasury yield DGS30 📈 chartRate▲ +7bp
hist -5.46–+5.82% · other way +8.8% (n=12)
5High-yield credit HYG 📈 chartRate▼ -0.6%
hist -0.87–-0.02% · other way -0.28% (n=12)
6Volatility (VIX) VIXon Hyperliquid 📈 chartVol▲ +0.6%
hist -1.98–+4.73% · other way -0.58% (n=12)
710y Treasury yield DGS10 📈 chartRate▲ +6bp
hist -7.02–+7.35% · other way +9.1% (n=12)
8Gold XAUon Hyperliquid 📈 chartCommodity▲ +0.5%
hist -0.1–+0.94% · other way +0.37% (n=12)
9Solana SOLon Hyperliquid 📈 chartCrypto▼ -0.5%
hist -9.91–+2.44% · other way -1.04% (n=11)
10Hyperliquid (HYPE) HYPEon HyperliquidCrypto▼ -0.4%
model prior · unmeasured
11Financials XLF 📈 chartEquity▼ -0.4%
hist -0.45–-0.08% · other way +0.01% (n=12)
12Ether ETHon Hyperliquid 📈 chartCrypto▼ -0.4%
hist -4.74–+2.36% · other way +4.87% (n=11)
13US dollar (DXY) DXYon Hyperliquid 📈 chartFX▼ -0.4%
hist -0.36–+0.18% · other way +0.89% (n=12)
14Semiconductors SMHon Hyperliquid 📈 chartEquity▼ -0.4%
hist -0.62–+1.26% · other way +2.75% (n=12)

Probable recommendation

If the scenario above plays out, the probable cross‑asset positioning → a scenario‑conditional read, not personalized investment advice
Cash / hedgeRaise cash and hold the long hedges above; this scenario is net risk-off.
For a common-man portfolio: A typical stock-heavy portfolio is at risk. Consider trimming equities, raising cash, and a small gold hedge.
Also moves (not yet on Hyperliquid): Tech sector -0.9% · 30y Treasury yield +7bp · High-yield credit -0.6% · 10y Treasury yield +6bp · Financials -0.4% · JPMorgan -0.4%

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.

First Republic Bank seized and sold to JPMorgan 2023-05 Regional-bank panic deepens after Signature seizure 2023-03 Russia cut from SWIFT + central-bank reserves frozen 2022-02 Kaisa Group offshore default 2021-12 HYG record outflows in 2014 high-yield rout 2014-10 Mt. Gox collapse 2014-02 Mt. Gox halts withdrawals 2014-02 Cyprus deposit bail-in 2013-03 Spain requests EUR100bn bank bailout 2012-06 Bankia nationalised in Spain's banking crisis 2012-05 Portugal requests EU-IMF bailout 2011-04 Greece first EU/IMF bailout 2010-05 Greece requests EU/IMF bailout 2010-04 Anglo Irish Bank nationalisation 2009-01 Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac conservatorship 2008-09 IndyMac Bank seized by the Office of Thrift Supervision 2008-07 Northern Rock bank run 2007-09 American Home Mortgage bankruptcy 2007-08 Bear Stearns freezes redemptions on subprime hedge funds 2007-06 New Century Financial bankruptcy 2007-04 Turkey lets the lira float 2001-02 Mexico $50bn international rescue package 1995-01 Hong Kong Stock Exchange four-day closure after Black Monday 1987-10 Louvre Accord 1987-02 Penn Square Bank failure 1982-07 Iranian Revolution oil shock 1978-12 Nixon Shock 1971-08 FDR gold confiscation & revaluation 1933-04 Gold tops $4,000 and silver spikes past $50 in historic squeeze 2025-10 Israel strikes Iran — Operation Rising Lion 2025-06 China retaliates to Liberation Day: 34% tariffs + rare-earth controls 2025-04 Gold tops $3,000 for the first time amid tariff and rate-cut fears 2025-03 Tesla shares crater on DOGE political backlash and Europe sales collapse 2025-03 TSMC slumps as DeepSeek roils AI-chip demand assumptions 2025-02 Micron's weak FQ2 guidance sparks a sharp December selloff 2024-12 ASML bookings-miss crash 2024-10 October 2024 Iranian ballistic-missile attack on Israel 2024-10 Gold tops $2,500 for the first time on Fed rate-cut bets 2024-08 Nikkei 225 record single-day rebound 2024-08 Nikkei 225 worst single-day crash since 1987 2024-08
AssetHistory saysAbnormal (20d · 5d)HitnConfidencevs cascade
KRW KRWSHORT-1.7% · 5d -0.0%71%32 0.40⚠ differs
SOL SOLSHORT-8.6% · 5d -10.2%79%16 0.36✓ matches cascade
High-yield credit HYGSHORT-0.5% · 5d -0.1%69%31 0.33✓ matches cascade
SPX SPXLONG+0.0% · 5d +-0.0% ↺ fades66%39 0.29⚠ differs
XHB XHBSHORT-1.1% · 5d -0.1%67%32 0.29✓ matches cascade
Gold XAULONG+0.7% · 5d +0.4%60%33 0.19✓ matches cascade
SMH SMHLONG+1.3% · 5d -0.8% ↺ fades60%33 0.18⚠ differs
AMD AMDSHORT-0.2% · 5d -1.9%59%37 0.14✓ matches cascade
30y yield DGS30SHORT-8bp · 5d -4bp57%38 0.13⚠ differs
JPM JPMSHORT-0.2% · 5d -1.6%57%37 0.13✓ matches cascade
ASML ASMLSHORT-2.1% · 5d -3.3%58%33 0.13✓ matches cascade
USDJPY USDJPYLONG+0.4% · 5d -0.1% ↺ fades57%33 0.12⚠ differs
AVGO AVGOLONG+2.3% · 5d -0.5% ↺ fades57%25 0.12⚠ differs
ARM ARMSHORT-3.7% · 5d -5.3%58%12 0.11✓ matches cascade

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.