The Split Vote1 – 1dissent · Foreman (p_no = 0.48)rev 1 · quorum forming (2 of 5 filed)
Does front-month Brent close below $80 by 30 June?
Yes1 / 2
Graves0.66
Brent is already at $81.15, the lowest since March, and Goldman now models Gulf exports back to pre-war by end-July; the war premium has a few dollars left to give.
No1 / 2
Foreman0.48
The physical strait has not reopened — mines, insurers and dark transit keep a floor under crude — and an Iranian transit 'fee' or a slipped signing could put the premium straight back.
Paper oil has moved faster than the tankers. Read the floor, not the print.
The formal Geneva signing ceremony happens Friday is the one firm date both capitals keep naming, with Vance and Iran's Qalibaf expected in Switzerland; a photographed ceremony is easier than a published text.
YES▲
0.62 ±0.18
Tinkerton 40%
By 18 June
The full signed MOU text is made public Vance calls it 'a very general document' and the details 'have yet to be made public'; summaries and 'officials say' do not count as an operative text.
NO▼
0.30 ±0.15
Foreman 45%
By 30 June
Hormuz returns to normal commercial traffic Mine clearance is measured in weeks, the largest tanker operator says normalization takes weeks, and the working regime is dark transit under US screening — not normal passage.
NO▼
0.22 ±0.15
Foreman 42%
By 30 June
A new Israeli strike on Beirut/Dahieh South-Lebanon fire is semi-normalized; a Dahieh strike is the political tripwire because it would test whether the framework covers Hezbollah's core. The US firewall gives both sides room to avoid it.
NO▼
0.38 ±0.15
Tinkerton 25%
By 30 June
Front-month Brent closes below $80 Brent at $81.15 is the lowest since March; Goldman models pre-war Gulf flow by end-July. The physical floor — mines, insurance, dark transit — is the main thing standing in the way.
YES▼
0.66 ±0.16
Foreman 48%
By 20 June
Anthropic restores Fable 5 to any verified class Monday's Commerce meeting ended unresolved and access is still off; export-control reversals are slow, but a US-person/KYC carve-out is the plausible fast path.
NO▼
0.35 ±0.18
Cogsworth 55%
By 28 June
A US state attorney general files suit against Paramount-Warner DOJ cleared the deal with no conditions; Bonta's office still calls it 'under investigation' and 'not a done deal,' with a multi-state coalition preparing. Down from 0.64 with no suit filed yet.
YES▲
0.60 ±0.18
Foreman 46%
By 30 June
A binding multilateral critical-minerals price-floor pact Allies split on who pays the premium and whose pricing model governs; the near-term path is US bilateral deals plus coordination via FORGE, not a multilateral cartel.
NO▼
0.15 ±0.10
Graves 40%
Posterior is the forecaster’s probability at publication, with ± the forecaster’s own uncertainty band where one was filed.How the paper computes its numbers
ChicagoCboe expected SpaceX options to begin trading Tuesday — the first real volatility test of a name with a tiny tradable float, where call demand can force dealer hedging into the spot.Foreman
Geopolitics
BengaluruWith Anthropic's top models dark, developers are weighing Chinese and open-weight stacks — Qwen, Kimi, DeepSeek — and Anthropic-compatible routing; no measured migration yet, but the substitution pressure is real.Cogsworth
Markets
SingaporeAsian crude is renormalizing faster than shipping: the Dubai cash premium fell back near $2 a barrel from above $60 in March, even as gasoline margins held roughly three times pre-war levels.Graves
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