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

What if India CPI re-acceleration forces a surprise RBI hike?

Sticky core and food inflation force the RBI to reverse course and hike, jolting the G-sec market; yields jump, NIFTY de-rates and the move tests the credibility of the easing cycle.

18%
our model probability
over 6–18 months
prediction markets — wisdom of the crowd
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Empirically anchored 18% · 90% range 8–27% · 40 analogues · measured class monetary_tightening 98% in 18 mo · 3% held back for the unknown
how we built this number — every step
Measured class rate — monetary_tightening ≈2.59/yr → 98% in 18 mo98%
Analyst prior · editorial share 18% of the class18%
Pooled · weight 87%18%
Crowd — no liquid market
Reserve 3% · no extremizing (×1.0)18%
Published18%

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. Sticky core and food inflation force the RBI to reverse course and hike, jolting the G-sec market; yields jump, NIFTY de-rates and the move tests the credibility of the easing cycle. The trigger decomposes into signed root‑shocks — Credit spreads ▲ · Fed policy path ▲ · Inflation surprise ▲ · 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
1MicroStrategy MSTRon Hyperliquid 📈 chartEquity▼ -1.2%
hist -5.61–+0.64% · other way +4.41% (n=12)
2Nasdaq 100 NDXon Hyperliquid 📈 chartIndex▼ -0.9%
hist -0.96–-0.12% · other way +0.48% (n=12)
3Solana SOLon Hyperliquid 📈 chartCrypto▼ -0.8%
hist -0.74–-0.35% · other way +8.77% (n=6)
4Tech sector XLK 📈 chartEquity▼ -0.8%
hist -0.57–-0.16% · other way +1.21% (n=12)
5Bitcoin BTCon Hyperliquid 📈 chartCrypto▼ -0.7%
hist -8.63–+2.83% · other way -1.88% (n=7)
6Hyperliquid (HYPE) HYPEon HyperliquidCrypto▼ -0.7%
model prior · unmeasured
7Ether ETHon Hyperliquid 📈 chartCrypto▼ -0.6%
hist -6.11–+2.85% · other way +10.06% (n=6)
8Volatility (VIX) VIXon Hyperliquid 📈 chartVol▲ +0.6%
hist -0.64–+2.02% · other way -8.02% (n=12)
9Gold XAUon Hyperliquid 📈 chartCommodity▼ -0.5%
hist -0.89–+0.12% · other way -0.08% (n=11)
1030y Treasury yield DGS30 📈 chartRate▲ +5bp
hist +1.15–+4.05% · other way +11.9% (n=12)
11High-yield credit HYG 📈 chartRate▼ -0.4%
hist -0.46–-0.04% · other way -0.32% (n=8)
12S&P 500 SPXon Hyperliquid 📈 chartIndex▼ -0.4%
hist -1.5–+0.48% · other way +2.36% (n=12)
13Coinbase COINon Hyperliquid 📈 chartEquity▼ -0.4%
hist -1.75–+1.76% · other way +11.0% (n=4)
1410y Treasury yield DGS10 📈 chartRate▲ +4bp
hist +1.13–+2.82% · other way +12.1% (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 cash hedge.
Also moves (not yet on Hyperliquid): Tech sector -0.8% · 30y Treasury yield +5bp · High-yield credit -0.4% · 10y Treasury yield +4bp · 2y Treasury yield +3bp · Financials -0.2%

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.

August 2022 hot CPI 2022-09 Powell's hawkish 'pain' speech at Jackson Hole 2022-08 Northern Rock bank run 2007-09 Egypt's third flotation and 600bp rate hike 2024-03 First Republic Bank seized and sold to JPMorgan 2023-05 Regional-bank panic deepens after Signature seizure 2023-03 10-year yield breaches 4% for first time since 2008 2022-09 May 2022 US CPI sends S&P into a bear market 2022-06 Bank of England's first post-pandemic rate hike 2021-12 Kaisa Group offshore default 2021-12 Fed retires 'transitory' 2021-11 Turkish lira record low on rate cuts 2021-11 Turkey fires central-bank governor Agbal, sparking lira plunge 2021-03 February 2018 hot wage print triggers rate scare 2018-02 Russian ruble 'Black Tuesday' 2014-12 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 ECB's ill-timed pre-crisis rate hike 2008-07 American Home Mortgage bankruptcy 2007-08 Bear Stearns freezes redemptions on subprime hedge funds 2007-06 New Century Financial bankruptcy 2007-04 Shanghai Sneeze global selloff with then-record VIX spike 2007-02 Turkey lets the lira float 2001-02 Mexico $50bn international rescue package 1995-01 The Great Bond Massacre 1994-02 Hong Kong Stock Exchange four-day closure after Black Monday 1987-10 Penn Square Bank failure 1982-07 Silver Thursday 1980-03 Gold peaks at $850 1980-01 Volcker Saturday Night Special 1979-10
AssetHistory saysAbnormal (20d · 5d)HitnConfidencevs cascade
Bitcoin BTCSHORT-7.7% · 5d -6.6%72%15 0.38✓ matches cascade
MSTR MSTRSHORT-4.3% · 5d -2.9%72%33 0.35✓ matches cascade
ETH ETHSHORT-5.7% · 5d -5.1%68%13 0.25✓ matches cascade
TRY TRYLONG+0.0% · 5d +0.8%64%32 0.25⚠ differs
KRW KRWSHORT-1.2% · 5d +0.4% ↺ fades62%32 0.22✓ matches cascade
AUD AUDSHORT-0.8% · 5d +0.1% ↺ fades59%32 0.17✓ matches cascade
USDJPY USDJPYLONG+0.5% · 5d -0.2% ↺ fades59%33 0.15✓ matches cascade
HOOD HOODSHORT-3.5% · 5d -3.9%58%11 0.15✓ matches cascade
GBPUSD GBPUSDSHORT-0.4% · 5d -0.0%58%32 0.14✓ matches cascade
COIN COINLONG+2.2% · 5d +4.1%58%11 0.12⚠ differs
US dollar DXYLONG+0.7% · 5d +0.3%56%40 0.11✓ matches cascade
EURUSD EURUSDSHORT-1.0% · 5d -0.1%56%32 0.11✓ matches cascade
High-yield credit HYGSHORT-0.2% · 5d +0.2% ↺ fades56%30 0.10✓ matches cascade
INR INRSHORT-0.3% · 5d +0.2% ↺ fades53%32 0.06✓ 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.