🛢 Energy & Commodities risk-on · 3–10 years
A what‑if from the future

What if Global carbon-price breakthrough: G20 floor agreed?

G20 powers agree a coordinated minimum carbon price, repricing emissions globally; clean-energy capex surges while high-cost fossil reserves face write-downs.

13%
our model probability
over 3–10 years
prediction markets — wisdom of the crowd
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Empirically anchored 13% · 90% range 3–22% · 36 analogues · measured class deflation 98% in 10 yr · 3% held back for the unknown
how we built this number — every step
Measured class rate — deflation ≈0.3895/yr → 98% in 10 yr98%
Analyst prior · editorial share 8% of the class8%
Pooled · weight 86%13%
Crowd — no liquid market
Reserve 3% · no extremizing (×1.0)13%
Published13%

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 3–10 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 risk-on shock. G20 powers agree a coordinated minimum carbon price, repricing emissions globally; clean-energy capex surges while high-cost fossil reserves face write-downs. The trigger decomposes into signed root‑shocks — Clean-energy abundance ▲ · Inflation expectations ▲ · Oil demand ▼ · 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
1Energy sector XLEon Hyperliquid 📈 chartEquity▼ -1.7%
hist -1.16–-0.23% · other way -3.59% (n=11)
2WTI crude CLon Hyperliquid 📈 chartCommodity▼ -1.4%
hist -1.88–+1.8% · other way -4.88% (n=11)
3ExxonMobil XOM 📈 chartEquity▼ -1.3%
hist -1.0–-0.36% · other way -2.88% (n=12)
4Brent crude BRENTon Hyperliquid 📈 chartCommodity▼ -1.3%
hist -1.11–+0.15% · other way -4.08% (n=11)
5United Airlines UAL 📈 chartEquity▲ +0.8%
hist -4.28–+15.74% · other way +5.51% (n=11)
6Nasdaq 100 NDXon Hyperliquid 📈 chartIndex▲ +0.6%
hist +0.04–+0.67% · other way +0.38% (n=11)
7Solana SOLon Hyperliquid 📈 chartCrypto▲ +0.6%
hist -1.48–+2.89% · other way +2.29% (n=6)
8Chevron CVX 📈 chartEquity▼ -0.6%
hist -0.78–-0.03% · other way -2.39% (n=12)
9Delta DAL 📈 chartEquity▲ +0.7%
hist -0.71–+10.71% · other way +3.55% (n=11)
10MicroStrategy MSTRon Hyperliquid 📈 chartEquity▲ +0.5%
hist -3.69–+7.97% · other way +3.61% (n=11)
11Hyperliquid (HYPE) HYPEon HyperliquidCrypto▲ +0.4%
model prior · unmeasured
12Ether ETHon Hyperliquid 📈 chartCrypto▲ +0.4%
hist -1.79–+4.37% · other way -5.95% (n=6)
13Tech sector XLK 📈 chartEquity▲ +0.4%
hist -0.16–+0.87% · other way +0.7% (n=11)
14Bitcoin BTCon Hyperliquid 📈 chartCrypto▲ +0.3%
hist -4.78–+8.03% · other way -2.97% (n=9)

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: A typical stock-heavy portfolio should benefit. Stay invested; you can lean modestly into the beneficiaries below.
Also moves (not yet on Hyperliquid): ExxonMobil -1.3% · United Airlines +0.8% · Chevron -0.6% · Delta +0.7% · Tech sector +0.4%

Historical precedent — what analogous events actually did

Across 36 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.

Henry Hub natural gas hits a 25-year low amid record US production 2024-11 Waha hub natural gas prices crash to record negative on Permian glut 2024-08 WTI crude futures settle negative as demand collapses 2020-04 Oil collapses from $147 to the $30s as the GFC craters demand 2008-12 Volcker Saturday Night Special 1979-10 Platinum hits an 11-year high on Chinese jewelry demand and deficit 2025-06 Nasdaq Composite first close above 20000 2024-12 Henry Hub natural gas falls to an all-time inflation-adjusted low on record output 2024-11 Palladium jumps after US pushes G7 sanctions on Russian metal 2024-10 Niger coup d'etat 2023-07 PJM grid emergency during Winter Storm Elliott 2022-12 NIF achieves fusion ignition 2022-12 European TTF gas hits all-time record high 2022-08 Bank of England's first post-pandemic rate hike 2021-12 European gas crisis intraday record spike 2021-10 Texas grid failure during Winter Storm Uri 2021-02 Norilsk Nickel Arctic diesel spill 2020-05 Bank of Japan Kuroda QQE 'bazooka' 2013-04 Silver hits 30-year high as JPMorgan and HSBC face manipulation suits 2010-10 Crude oil all-time high 2008-07 Henry Hub natural gas spot price peaks during 2008 commodity boom 2008-07 Platinum hits all-time record near $2,290 on South African power crisis 2008-03 South Africa Eskom power emergency spikes platinum/PGMs 2008-01 Amaranth Advisors natural-gas blowup 2006-09 Northeast blackout cascading grid failure hits ~55 million 2003-08 Fed surprise inter-meeting cut 2001-01 Soviet August coup attempt against Gorbachev 1991-08 Gulf War air campaign begins 1991-01 1990-91 recession onset 1990-07 Argentina hyperinflation peak / Alfonsin early handover 1989-07 Silver Thursday 1980-03 Gold peaks at $850 1980-01 1979 Iranian Revolution oil shock 1979-01 1976 UK sterling crisis / IMF bailout 1976-09 1973-75 recession onset 1973-11 Nixon Shock 1971-08
AssetHistory saysAbnormal (20d · 5d)HitnConfidencevs cascade
DAL DALLONG+8.2% · 5d +2.5%77%22 0.52✓ matches cascade
Volatility VIXSHORT-4.1% · 5d -4.2%69%28 0.29✓ matches cascade
UAL UALLONG+13.8% · 5d +0.8%63%23 0.25✓ matches cascade
ETH ETHLONG+4.0% · 5d -2.4% ↺ fades67%15 0.23✓ matches cascade
NDX NDXLONG+0.4% · 5d -0.5% ↺ fades64%29 0.22✓ matches cascade
SPX SPXLONG+0.7% · 5d +0.1%59%36 0.17✓ matches cascade
SMH SMHLONG+0.7% · 5d +0.0%59%25 0.15✓ matches cascade
COIN COINLONG+17.3% · 5d +5.7%57%12 0.13✓ matches cascade
US dollar DXYLONG+0.2% · 5d -0.1% ↺ fades56%36 0.10·
Bitcoin BTCLONG+8.1% · 5d -1.1% ↺ fades56%15 0.09✓ matches cascade
XLE XLELONG+0.4% · 5d -0.4% ↺ fades52%25 0.03⚠ differs
XOM XOMSHORT-0.2% · 5d -1.1%52%36 0.03✓ matches cascade
CVX CVXSHORT-0.4% · 5d -1.1%52%36 0.03✓ matches cascade
CL CLLONG+2.6% · 5d -1.2% ↺ fades45%25 0.00⚠ differs

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.