Fed rate hike in 2026 stays heavily favored

Name: Fed rate hike in 2026 stays heavily favored
Creator: ClearMarket
Published: 2026-09-15T00:00:00.000Z
License: https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/

Polymarket 93%

record: CMSIG2026091501 | category: momentum-repricing | target: CM-EVT-87QV1G78C4 | published: 2026-09-15

4-bullet brief | narrative

Polymarket prices a 2026 Fed rate hike at 93%, resolving via UMA oracle.
ABC News and AP report a near-consensus expectation for a Wednesday hike under Chair Kevin Warsh, market pricing is fully consistent with the news.
Kalshi's multi-deadline series (CM-EVT-P1KKDFWZ42) sits at 92%, a tight cross-venue gap confirming broad market alignment on the hike.
Kalshi's large-cut contract (CM-EVT-RWRZ1R3SD6) sits at just 4% for a cut greater than 25 bps, reinforcing the direction: markets see hike, not reversal.

atomic briefs | structured for retrieval

[01] news_event

significance

surfaced in the daily Exa news-cycle scan; mechanically matched to an active polymarket market

story: The Federal Reserve is widely expected to lift its benchmark rate Wednesday for the first time in three years, defying President Trump's demands for a cut.exa_search → ABC News · as_of 2026-09-15T13:05:57+00:00
publisher: ABC News
published_at: 2026-09-15T00:00:00.000Z
source_url: https://abcnews.com/Politics/wireStory/federal-reserve-expected-raise-benchmark-rate-defying-trumps-136452241

[02] pm_response

interp: Polymarket and Kalshi both price the hike above 90%, a rare cross-venue convergence with near-zero probability assigned to a cut.llm_judge_cm_signal_v1

evaluation

News-cycle wires publish on coverage, not editorial selection — the day’s top stories matched to the prediction markets pricing them, so nothing is cherry-picked.

judge_engine: none — deterministic news-cycle scan
judge_verdict: auto_published
judge_confidence: n/a — no judge gate (deterministic publishing)
prompt_template: news_cycle_v1 github · auditable
match_method: entity_slug_match (mechanical)

citation graph

Every wire traces back to the ClearMarket event it is built on, and out to each venue’s own market page — so any figure here can be verified at its source.

internal

cm_event: /events/fed-rate-hike-in-2026/

external

venue_a: polymarket · 0x80b3af88cb991980e8da1ce86b9794a0957f96ec98c29319dd7ba65e9744d82b

programmatic access · four surfaces, same payload

AI grounded search reads embedded JSON-LD in HTML. Developers query REST. Agentic AI clients (Claude Desktop, Cursor) call MCP tools. AI crawlers index via /llms.txt. Same canonical record at every surface.

HTML	browsers, AI grounded search, crawlers (contains embedded JSON-LD `@type: Dataset`)	`https://clearmarket.fyi/signals/fed-2026-rate-hike-polymarket-93-2026-09-15/`
JSON	REST API for developers	`https://clearmarket.fyi/signals/fed-2026-rate-hike-polymarket-93-2026-09-15.json`
MCP	agentic AI tool call (Claude Desktop, Cursor, Continue)	`clearmarket.get_signal("fed-2026-rate-hike-polymarket-93-2026-09-15")`
AGENT	AI crawler discovery index	`/llms.txt`

 PM data: platform APIs (hourly refresh). News context: retrieved with source citations. Editorial judgment: LLM judge with prompt template versioned per wire type. Per-claim provenance inline above; full per-field provenance map at the JSON endpoint under field_provenance.
  raw JSON record · same payload returned by REST endpoint
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  "category_tag": "MOMENTUM_REPRICING",
  "secondary_tags": [],
  "pre_news_classification": "concurrent",
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  "event_question": "Will the Federal Reserve raise its benchmark interest rate in 2026?",
  "bullets": [
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    "ABC News and AP report a near-consensus expectation for a Wednesday hike under Chair Kevin Warsh, market pricing is fully consistent with the news.",
    "Kalshi's multi-deadline series (CM-EVT-P1KKDFWZ42) sits at 92%, a tight cross-venue gap confirming broad market alignment on the hike.",
    "Kalshi's large-cut contract (CM-EVT-RWRZ1R3SD6) sits at just 4% for a cut greater than 25 bps, reinforcing the direction: markets see hike, not reversal."
  ],
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        }
      },
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      },
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  "citations": {
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   PROVENANCE PROTOCOL v0.2 · [direct] venue api · [mediated] grounded web fetch + source url · [derived] computed from listed inputs · [editorial] versioned llm judgment · full spec /schema/provenance/v1

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