🏛 Central Banks & Macro risk-off · 0–6 months
A what‑if from the future

What if Jobs-report shock: a blowout payroll kills the cut narrative?

A blowout payrolls print upends a dovish consensus, repricing cuts out of the curve and spiking real yields as the labor market refuses to cool.

10%
our model probability
over 0–6 months
prediction markets — wisdom of the crowd
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Empirically anchored 10% · 90% range 0–25% · 25 analogues · measured class labor 16% in 6 mo · 3% held back for the unknown
how we built this number — every step
Measured class rate — labor ≈0.3374/yr → 16% in 6 mo16%
Analyst prior · editorial share 77% of the class12%
Pooled · weight 81%11%
Crowd — no liquid market
Reserve 3% · no extremizing (×1.0)11%
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 0–6 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. A blowout payrolls print upends a dovish consensus, repricing cuts out of the curve and spiking real yields as the labor market refuses to cool. The trigger decomposes into signed root‑shocks — Fed policy path ▲ · Growth surprise ▲ · Labor shortage ▲ · 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
1Tech sector XLK 📈 chartEquity▼ -1.0%
hist -0.67–-0.31% · other way -1.22% (n=11)
2Nasdaq 100 NDXon Hyperliquid 📈 chartIndex▼ -0.9%
hist -0.62–-0.24% · other way -1.32% (n=11)
3MicroStrategy MSTRon Hyperliquid 📈 chartEquity▼ -0.9%
hist -11.7–+1.82% · other way -6.98% (n=11)
4Solana SOLon Hyperliquid 📈 chartCrypto▼ -0.8%
hist -4.42–+2.01% · other way -2.29% (n=6)
530y Treasury yield DGS30 📈 chartRate▲ +7bp
hist -2.51–+20.29% · other way +16.9% (n=12)
6Hyperliquid (HYPE) HYPEon HyperliquidCrypto▼ -0.7%
model prior · unmeasured
7Gold XAUon Hyperliquid 📈 chartCommodity▼ -0.7%
hist -3.55–+0.81% · other way +1.03% (n=10)
810y Treasury yield DGS10 📈 chartRate▲ +6bp
hist -4.9–+21.68% · other way +16.0% (n=12)
9Ether ETHon Hyperliquid 📈 chartCrypto▼ -0.6%
hist -5.7–+2.87% · other way -7.25% (n=6)
10Bitcoin BTCon Hyperliquid 📈 chartCrypto▼ -0.5%
hist -6.83–+3.1% · other way -2.37% (n=7)
11S&P 500 SPXon Hyperliquid 📈 chartIndex▼ -0.4%
hist -1.95–+0.51% · other way +1.1% (n=12)
12Homebuilders XHB 📈 chartEquity▼ -0.4%
hist -0.57–+0.39% · other way +1.92% (n=9)
13Semiconductors SMHon Hyperliquid 📈 chartEquity▼ -0.4%
hist -0.69–+0.06% · other way -1.83% (n=10)
14Arm ARMon Hyperliquid 📈 chartEquity▼ -0.3%
hist -1.08–+0.41% · other way -5.68% (n=5)

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 -1.0% · 30y Treasury yield +7bp · 10y Treasury yield +6bp · Homebuilders -0.4% · 2y Treasury yield +3bp · High-yield credit -0.2%

Historical precedent — what analogous events actually did

Across 25 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 Bank of England's first post-pandemic rate hike 2021-12 Volcker Saturday Night Special 1979-10 Nasdaq Composite first close above 20000 2024-12 Nikkei 225 record single-day rebound 2024-08 Strong May 2023 jobs report jolts yields higher 2023-06 Nvidia AI-guidance blowout ignites the automation/AI capex wave 2023-05 May 2022 US CPI sends S&P into a bear market 2022-06 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 Bank of Japan Kuroda QQE 'bazooka' 2013-04 ECB's ill-timed pre-crisis rate hike 2008-07 2008 global rice crisis: Thai benchmark tops $1,000/ton 2008-04 Shanghai Sneeze global selloff with then-record VIX spike 2007-02 The Great Bond Massacre 1994-02 Soviet August coup attempt against Gorbachev 1991-08 Silver Thursday 1980-03 Gold peaks at $850 1980-01 1979 Iranian Revolution oil shock 1979-01 Iranian Revolution oil shock 1978-12 Cuban Missile Crisis 1962-10
AssetHistory saysAbnormal (20d · 5d)HitnConfidencevs cascade
MSTR MSTRSHORT-9.5% · 5d -6.1%81%17 0.44✓ matches cascade
AMD AMDSHORT-4.2% · 5d -2.6%77%20 0.43✓ matches cascade
COIN COINSHORT-2.3% · 5d -2.4%74%10 0.38✓ matches cascade
USDJPY USDJPYLONG+1.3% · 5d +0.6%73%17 0.37✓ matches cascade
Gold XAUSHORT-2.9% · 5d -2.2%70%17 0.35✓ matches cascade
TSM TSMSHORT-0.2% · 5d -1.1%70%17 0.32✓ matches cascade
30y yield DGS30LONG+15bp · 5d +4bp65%24 0.30✓ matches cascade
Bitcoin BTCSHORT-6.4% · 5d -6.4%69%13 0.30✓ matches cascade
SOL SOLSHORT-3.9% · 5d -6.9%68%11 0.26✓ matches cascade
SMH SMHSHORT-0.5% · 5d -0.4%65%17 0.24✓ matches cascade
ETH ETHSHORT-5.4% · 5d -4.4%67%12 0.23✓ matches cascade
High-yield credit HYGLONG+0.2% · 5d +0.3%63%16 0.18⚠ differs
XLK XLKSHORT-0.1% · 5d -0.5%62%17 0.17✓ matches cascade
GBPUSD GBPUSDSHORT-0.5% · 5d -0.3%59%17 0.16✓ 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.