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

What if Western greenfield uranium mines erase the supply deficit?

A cohort of new Australian, Canadian and Namibian mines reaches production, lifting primary supply enough to close the deficit and pull uranium back off its highs.

24%
our model probability
over 3–10 years
prediction markets — wisdom of the crowd
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Empirically anchored 24% · 90% range 12–36% · 40 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 22% of the class22%
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 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 mixed shock. A cohort of new Australian, Canadian and Namibian mines reaches production, lifting primary supply enough to close the deficit and pull uranium back off its highs. The trigger decomposes into signed root‑shocks — Clean-energy abundance ▲ · Industrial demand ▼ · Inflation expectations ▼ · 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▼ -0.5%
hist -1.13–+0.15% · other way -9.23% (n=5)
2Brent crude BRENTon Hyperliquid 📈 chartCommodity▼ -0.4%
hist -1.89–+0.48% · other way -11.14% (n=5)
3ExxonMobil XOM 📈 chartEquity▼ -0.4%
hist -0.79–+0.12% · other way -1.12% (n=12)
4WTI crude CLon Hyperliquid 📈 chartCommodity▼ -0.4%
hist -1.6–+0.3% · other way -9.7% (n=5)
5Freeport (copper) FCX 📈 chartEquity▼ -0.2%
hist -0.54–+0.76% · other way -9.62% (n=5)
6United Airlines UAL 📈 chartEquity▲ +0.2%
hist -2.13–+5.18% · other way +70.35% (n=5)
7Chevron CVX 📈 chartEquity▼ -0.2%
hist -0.87–+0.26% · other way -1.51% (n=12)
8Delta DAL 📈 chartEquity▲ +0.2%
hist -1.08–+3.02% · other way +33.73% (n=5)
930y Treasury yield DGS30 📈 chartRate▼ -1bp
hist -2.6–+0.52% · other way +38.2% (n=10)
1010y Treasury yield DGS10 📈 chartRate▼ -1bp
hist -3.17–+0.65% · other way +28.0% (n=12)

Probable recommendation

If the scenario above plays out, the probable cross‑asset positioning → a scenario‑conditional read, not personalized investment advice
Long
For a common-man portfolio: Mixed for a typical portfolio — the move is more about rotation than direction. Favour the winners over the losers below rather than net exposure.
Also moves (not yet on Hyperliquid): ExxonMobil -0.4% · Freeport (copper) -0.2% · United Airlines +0.2% · Chevron -0.2% · Delta +0.2% · 30y Treasury yield -1bp

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.

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 PJM grid emergency during Winter Storm Elliott 2022-12 Texas grid failure during Winter Storm Uri 2021-02 WTI crude futures settle negative as demand collapses 2020-04 Oil collapses from $147 to the $30s as the GFC craters demand 2008-12 Northeast blackout cascading grid failure hits ~55 million 2003-08 Soviet August coup attempt against Gorbachev 1991-08 Gold tops $4,000 and silver spikes past $50 in historic squeeze 2025-10 Platinum hits an 11-year high on Chinese jewelry demand and deficit 2025-06 Gold tops $3,000 for the first time amid tariff and rate-cut fears 2025-03 Palladium jumps after US pushes G7 sanctions on Russian metal 2024-10 Gold tops $2,500 for the first time on Fed rate-cut bets 2024-08 Nikkei 225 record single-day rebound 2024-08 Niger coup d'etat 2023-07 NIF achieves fusion ignition 2022-12 European TTF gas hits all-time record high 2022-08 California rolling blackouts during a record heatwave 2020-08 Gold closes above $2,000/oz for the first time 2020-08 Norilsk Nickel Arctic diesel spill 2020-05 Saudi-Russia oil price war 2020-03 North Korea sixth nuclear test 2017-09 North Korea 'fire and fury' nuclear scare 2017-08 China rout & circuit-breaker / yuan slide 2016-01 SNB introduces negative interest rates 2014-12 Russian ruble 'Black Tuesday' 2014-12 Gold futures velocity-logic flash crash 2014-01 Gold all-time peak of $1,921/oz 2011-09 Egyptian revolution / Mubarak uprising 2011-01 Silver hits 30-year high as JPMorgan and HSBC face manipulation suits 2010-10 Henry Hub natural gas spot price peaks during 2008 commodity boom 2008-07 2008 global rice crisis: Thai benchmark tops $1,000/ton 2008-04 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 Gulf War air campaign begins 1991-01 Chernobyl disaster 1986-04 1986 oil price collapse 1986-02 Silver Thursday 1980-03 Gold peaks at $850 1980-01
AssetHistory saysAbnormal (20d · 5d)HitnConfidencevs cascade
CL CLSHORT-1.3% · 5d -1.5%64%34 0.24✓ matches cascade
XLE XLESHORT-0.8% · 5d -0.3%61%34 0.21✓ matches cascade
10y yield DGS10SHORT-2bp · 5d +1bp ↺ fades59%40 0.16✓ matches cascade
BRENT BRENTSHORT-1.6% · 5d -1.7%58%32 0.15✓ matches cascade
Gold XAULONG+0.4% · 5d -0.5% ↺ fades57%34 0.14·
DAL DALLONG+2.7% · 5d +0.1%57%32 0.13✓ matches cascade
CVX CVXSHORT-0.7% · 5d -0.2%56%40 0.10✓ matches cascade
UAL UALLONG+4.8% · 5d -1.2% ↺ fades54%33 0.08✓ matches cascade
XOM XOMSHORT-0.5% · 5d -0.2%52%40 0.04✓ matches cascade
30y yield DGS30SHORT-2bp · 5d +1bp ↺ fades52%40 0.04✓ matches cascade
Volatility VIXSHORT-1.4% · 5d -2.8%52%36 0.04·
US dollar DXYLONG+0.2% · 5d -0.0% ↺ fades52%40 0.04·
FCX FCXLONG+0.9% · 5d +0.4%45%34 0.00⚠ differs
Bitcoin BTCLONG+1.8% · 5d -2.4% ↺ fades40%23 0.00·

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.