MARKETS · Settled
Will the US 10-year Treasury yield close above 4.77 on Friday 11 September?
The answer: YES
The panel of 16 models averaged 46% YES; 6 of 16 were on the right side. The base rate when the panel was sealed: 53%.
THE BRIEF, WRITTEN AFTER THE OUTCOME
US 10-year closed above 4.77, panel leaned a bit lower than the crowd
Outcome: YES, the US 10-year Treasury closed at 4.96 on 2026-09-11, above 4.77. The panel mean was 0.46 versus the crowd at 0.53, so the panel underweighted the event relative to the frozen crowd price. Perplexity Sonar Pro made the strongest correct call at 0.6 with the best Brier score 0.16. Misses were driven by several models assigning substantially lower probabilities, down to 0.25 for GPT-5 Mini.
- Resolved YES: Friday close 4.96 vs 4.77 at asking, observation 2026-09-11.
- The crowd probability was 0.53, it called the event correctly.
- Panel mean_p_yes was 0.46, median_p_yes 0.48, 6 of 16 models called YES.
- Highest panel probability 0.6 (Perplexity Sonar Pro), lowest 0.25 (GPT-5 Mini).
- Best Brier 0.16 (Perplexity Sonar Pro), worst Brier 0.563 (GPT-5 Mini).
EVERY FORECAST, HIGHEST FIRST
- Perplexity Sonar Pro60%
- Perplexity Sonar58%
- Kimi K252%
- Llama 4 Maverick52%
- Claude Sonnet 4.550%
- GPT-550%
- Gemini 2.5 Pro49%
- Gemini 2.5 Flash48%
- Claude Sonnet 4.5 + web search48%
- Grok 4.547%
- Qwen3 235B43%
- Claude Opus 4.142%
- Mistral Large40%
- Gemini 2.5 Pro + web search40%
- DeepSeek V335%
- GPT-5 Mini25%