Odds on a jumbo Fed rate cut this year stay near zero

Name: Odds on a jumbo Fed rate cut this year stay near zero
Creator: ClearMarket
Published: 2026-09-22T00:00:00.000Z
License: https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/

Kalshi 2%

record: CMSIG2026092202 | category: momentum-repricing | target: CM-EVT-RWRZ1R3SD6 | published: 2026-09-22

4-bullet brief | narrative

The Kalshi prediction market puts just 2% odds on the Federal Reserve cutting rates by more than 25 basis points in 2026.
With officials voting for hikes and citing war-driven inflation, the Kalshi contract at 2% is fully consistent with the hawkish policy posture described in the news.
The near-zero probability on a jumbo cut contrasts sharply with the Kalshi ladder's implied 4.0-4.25% upper bound, pointing to a higher-for-longer rather than pivot scenario.
Resolves via the Federal Reserve's official rate announcements through year-end 2026.

atomic briefs | structured for retrieval

[01] news_event

significance

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

story: A Federal Reserve official cited the Iran war as a factor pushing her to support a rate hike, reinforcing the tightening backdrop.exa_search → newser.com · as_of 2026-09-22T07:47:31+00:00
publisher: newser.com
published_at: 2026-09-22T00:00:00.000Z
source_url: https://www.newser.com/article/5acf1f7e4f38ac77329fa0b9aaddd30f/federal-reserve-official-says-iran-war-pushed-her-toward-supporting-rate-hike.html

[02] pm_response

interp: Kalshi prices this at 2%, a deep long-shot consistent with the current hiking cycle; no rate-cut catalyst is visible in the prediction market.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/kxlargecut-26/

external

venue_a: https://kalshi.com/markets/KXLARGECUT-26

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-cut-25bps-in-2026-kalshi-2-2026-09-22/`
JSON	REST API for developers	`https://clearmarket.fyi/signals/fed-cut-25bps-in-2026-kalshi-2-2026-09-22.json`
MCP	agentic AI tool call (Claude Desktop, Cursor, Continue)	`clearmarket.get_signal("fed-cut-25bps-in-2026-kalshi-2-2026-09-22")`
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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  "target_event_slug": "kxlargecut-26",
  "event_question": "Will the Federal Reserve do a rate cut greater than 25 basis points this year?",
  "bullets": [
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    "With officials voting for hikes and citing war-driven inflation, the Kalshi contract at 2% is fully consistent with the hawkish policy posture described in the news.",
    "The near-zero probability on a jumbo cut contrasts sharply with the Kalshi ladder's implied 4.0-4.25% upper bound, pointing to a higher-for-longer rather than pivot scenario.",
    "Resolves via the Federal Reserve's official rate announcements through year-end 2026."
  ],
  "atomic_claims": [
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        }
      },
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    },
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      "venue_a": "https://kalshi.com/markets/KXLARGECUT-26",
      "venue_b": null,
      "benchmark": null
    }
  },
  "sources": [
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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

record CMSIG2026092202 published 2026-09-22T00:00:00.000Z signature sha256-65d5cd27eef… ← underlying event all signals →