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

What if Sudan war drives Egypt's external gap wider?

Refugee inflows and lost trade with Sudan widen Egypt's external financing gap, adding pressure on the pound and on Cairo's IMF program.

21%
our model probability
over 6–18 months
prediction markets — wisdom of the crowd
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Empirically anchored 21% · 90% range 11–31% · 40 analogues · measured class banking_crisis 100% in 18 mo · 3% held back for the unknown
how we built this number — every step
Measured class rate — banking_crisis ≈4.5338/yr → 100% in 18 mo100%
Analyst prior · editorial share 23% of the class23%
Pooled · weight 87%22%
Crowd — no liquid market
Reserve 3% · no extremizing (×1.0)22%
Published21%

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. Refugee inflows and lost trade with Sudan widen Egypt's external financing gap, adding pressure on the pound and on Cairo's IMF program. The trigger decomposes into signed root‑shocks — EM currencies ▼ · Credit spreads ▲ · Food inflation ▲ · 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
1Turkish lira TRY 📈 chartFX▼ -0.6%
hist -1.36–+0.27% · other way -0.57% (n=12)
2Indian rupee INR 📈 chartFX▼ -0.5%
hist -0.59–-0.05% · other way -0.44% (n=12)
3MicroStrategy MSTRon Hyperliquid 📈 chartEquity▼ -0.5%
hist -3.95–+0.87% · other way +33.17% (n=12)
4Solana SOLon Hyperliquid 📈 chartCrypto▼ -0.3%
hist -5.0–+3.06% · other way -2.3% (n=11)
5High-yield credit HYG 📈 chartRate▼ -0.3%
hist -0.5–+0.01% · other way -0.36% (n=12)
6Nasdaq 100 NDXon Hyperliquid 📈 chartIndex▼ -0.3%
hist -0.38–-0.01% · other way -0.4% (n=12)
7Chinese yuan CNY 📈 chartFX▼ -0.3%
hist -0.6–+0.1% · other way -0.62% (n=12)
8Hyperliquid (HYPE) HYPEon HyperliquidCrypto▼ -0.3%
model prior · unmeasured
9Volatility (VIX) VIXon Hyperliquid 📈 chartVol▲ +0.3%
hist -2.05–+4.4% · other way -5.03% (n=12)
10Bitcoin BTCon Hyperliquid 📈 chartCrypto▼ -0.2%
hist -1.36–+0.61% · other way +7.7% (n=11)
11Ether ETHon Hyperliquid 📈 chartCrypto▼ -0.2%
hist -2.35–+1.3% · other way +4.16% (n=11)
12Financials XLF 📈 chartEquity▼ -0.2%
hist -0.38–+0.04% · other way +0.08% (n=12)
13S&P 500 SPXon Hyperliquid 📈 chartIndex▼ -0.2%
hist -1.37–+0.56% · other way +1.31% (n=12)
14Tech sector XLK 📈 chartEquity▼ -0.2%
hist -0.39–+0.55% · other way -0.28% (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): Turkish lira -0.6% · Indian rupee -0.5% · High-yield credit -0.3% · Chinese yuan -0.3% · Financials -0.2% · Tech sector -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.

First Republic Bank seized and sold to JPMorgan 2023-05 Regional-bank panic deepens after Signature seizure 2023-03 August 2022 hot CPI 2022-09 Powell's hawkish 'pain' speech at Jackson Hole 2022-08 Kaisa Group offshore default 2021-12 Turkish lira record low on rate cuts 2021-11 February 2018 hot wage print triggers rate scare 2018-02 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 Penn Square Bank failure 1982-07 Silver Thursday 1980-03 Gold peaks at $850 1980-01 1979 Iranian Revolution oil shock 1979-01 Iranian Revolution oil shock 1978-12 1976 UK sterling crisis / IMF bailout 1976-09 Iranian rial slides to a new record low 2025-12 Gold tops $4,000 and silver spikes past $50 in historic squeeze 2025-10 Israel strikes Iran — Operation Rising Lion 2025-06 H5N1 bird flu record US egg prices 2025-04 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
AssetHistory saysAbnormal (20d · 5d)HitnConfidencevs cascade
MSTR MSTRSHORT-3.3% · 5d -2.9%66%32 0.25✓ matches cascade
COIN COINLONG+4.5% · 5d +4.4%65%14 0.24⚠ differs
High-yield credit HYGSHORT-0.3% · 5d +0.1% ↺ fades63%30 0.22✓ matches cascade
10y yield DGS10SHORT-8bp · 5d -5bp54%40 0.08·
SOL SOLSHORT-5.0% · 5d -9.1%55%14 0.07✓ matches cascade
Bitcoin BTCSHORT-1.2% · 5d -3.3%54%16 0.07✓ matches cascade
US dollar DXYLONG+0.4% · 5d +0.2%54%40 0.07·
ETH ETHSHORT-2.2% · 5d -3.8%55%15 0.06✓ matches cascade
XLK XLKLONG+0.7% · 5d -0.6% ↺ fades52%32 0.03⚠ differs
TRY TRYSHORT-1.0% · 5d +0.9% ↺ fades43%31 0.00✓ matches cascade
INR INRSHORT-0.3% · 5d +0.2% ↺ fades46%31 0.00✓ matches cascade
NDX NDXSHORT-0.2% · 5d -1.6%43%34 0.00✓ matches cascade
CNY CNYSHORT-0.4% · 5d -0.1%44%31 0.00✓ matches cascade
Volatility VIXLONG+4.2% · 5d +6.2%50%33 0.00✓ 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.