🛢 Energy & Commodities risk-off · 6–18 months
A what‑if from the future

What if US ban on Russian uranium imports tightens enriched supply?

Full enforcement of the US Russian-uranium import ban removes a cheap enriched-fuel source, forcing utilities into Western conversion and enrichment at higher prices.

24%
our model probability
over 6–18 months
prediction markets — wisdom of the crowd
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Empirically anchored 24% · 90% range 3–46% · 40 analogues · measured class deflation 44% in 18 mo · 3% held back for the unknown
how we built this number — every step
Measured class rate — deflation ≈0.3895/yr → 44% in 18 mo44%
Analyst prior · editorial share 59% of the class26%
Pooled · weight 87%25%
Crowd — no liquid market
Reserve 3% · no extremizing (×1.0)25%
Published24%

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. Full enforcement of the US Russian-uranium import ban removes a cheap enriched-fuel source, forcing utilities into Western conversion and enrichment at higher prices. The trigger decomposes into signed root‑shocks — Clean-energy abundance ▲ · Industrial demand ▲ · Risk appetite ▼ · Trade tension ▲ — 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▼ -1.2%
hist -0.75–-0.18% · other way -1.41% (n=7)
2Semiconductors SMHon Hyperliquid 📈 chartEquity▼ -1.1%
hist -0.66–-0.3% · other way -1.22% (n=5)
3Nvidia NVDAon Hyperliquid 📈 chartEquity▼ -0.9%
hist -1.1–-0.07% · other way -10.84% (n=5)
4TSMC TSMon Hyperliquid 📈 chartEquity▼ -0.9%
hist -0.57–-0.28% · other way -4.26% (n=5)
5Alibaba BABAon Hyperliquid 📈 chartEquity▼ -0.8%
hist -0.57–-0.07% · other way +2.39% (n=2)
6Tech sector XLK 📈 chartEquity▼ -0.8%
hist -0.59–+-0.0% · other way +0.01% (n=5)
7ASML ASMLon Hyperliquid 📈 chartEquity▼ -0.7%
hist -1.88–+0.45% · other way +0.6% (n=5)
8AMD AMDon Hyperliquid 📈 chartEquity▼ -0.7%
hist -0.52–-0.1% · other way -12.07% (n=7)
9Broadcom AVGOon Hyperliquid 📈 chartEquity▼ -0.7%
hist -0.73–+0.38% · other way -2.58% (n=2)
10Micron MUon Hyperliquid 📈 chartEquity▼ -0.7%
hist -1.58–+0.29% · other way -14.8% (n=7)
11Marvell MRVLon Hyperliquid 📈 chartEquity▼ -0.7%
hist -0.69–+1.54% · other way -1.85% (n=5)
12Chinese yuan CNY 📈 chartFX▼ -0.6%
hist -0.38–-0.13% · other way -0.5% (n=5)
13Energy sector XLEon Hyperliquid 📈 chartEquity▼ -0.5%
hist -1.49–+0.23% · other way -9.23% (n=5)
14Qualcomm QCOMon Hyperliquid 📈 chartEquity▼ -0.5%
hist -1.68–+0.34% · other way +6.77% (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 -0.8% · Chinese yuan -0.6% · ExxonMobil -0.4% · Aussie dollar -0.2% · United Airlines +0.2% · Chevron -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.

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AssetHistory saysAbnormal (20d · 5d)HitnConfidencevs cascade
CL CLSHORT-1.6% · 5d -1.8%66%39 0.28✓ matches cascade
XLE XLESHORT-1.1% · 5d -0.4%64%39 0.26✓ matches cascade
MRVL MRVLLONG+1.6% · 5d -0.5% ↺ fades66%39 0.24⚠ differs
CNY CNYSHORT-0.1% · 5d -0.2%61%39 0.22✓ matches cascade
BRENT BRENTSHORT-1.8% · 5d -1.9%61%37 0.20✓ matches cascade
Gold XAULONG+0.4% · 5d -0.5% ↺ fades60%39 0.20·
QCOM QCOMSHORT-1.3% · 5d -1.7%60%39 0.15✓ matches cascade
XOM XOMSHORT-1.2% · 5d -0.4%57%40 0.14✓ matches cascade
10y yield DGS10SHORT0bp · 5d +3bp ↺ fades58%40 0.13·
DAL DALLONG+2.4% · 5d +0.6%57%37 0.12✓ matches cascade
CVX CVXSHORT-1.3% · 5d -0.3%56%40 0.11✓ matches cascade
Volatility VIXSHORT-2.1% · 5d -2.4%56%40 0.10⚠ differs
ETH ETHLONG+0.5% · 5d -3.8% ↺ fades56%22 0.09⚠ differs
SOL SOLLONG+5.0% · 5d -6.8% ↺ fades56%20 0.09⚠ 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.