Odds on an outsized Fed cut stay near the floor

Name: Odds on an outsized Fed cut stay near the floor
Creator: ClearMarket
Published: 2026-08-17T00:00:00.000Z
License: https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/

Kalshi 5%

record: CMSIG2026081702 | category: momentum-repricing | target: CM-EVT-RWRZ1R3SD6 | published: 2026-08-17

4-bullet brief | narrative

Kalshi contract on a Fed cut greater than 25 basis points in 2026 sits at just 5%.
Business Insider's hike-fade narrative is consistent with no large cut either, the market is pricing a firm hold, not a pivot.
PCE inflation at 3.7% in June, still well above the 2% target, gives the Fed little cover for aggressive easing.
The companion Polymarket hike contract at 47% (CM-EVT-87QV1G78C4) creates an asymmetric picture: roughly even chance of a hike, near-zero chance of a big cut.

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: Wall Street is souring on a September rate hike, with four cited reasons pointing to a prolonged pause rather than any near-term policy move in either direction.exa_search → William Edwards · as_of 2026-08-18T08:30:34+00:00
publisher: William Edwards
published_at: 2026-08-17T00:00:00.000Z
source_url: https://www.businessinsider.com/why-wall-street-is-abandoning-higher-interest-rates-federal-reserve-2026-8

[02] pm_response

interp: Kalshi contract resolves via Federal Reserve official decision; the 5% price reflects the wide gap between current inflation and any conditions that would justify an emergency-sized 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/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-above-25bp-this-year-kalshi-5-2026-08-17/`
JSON	REST API for developers	`https://clearmarket.fyi/signals/fed-cut-above-25bp-this-year-kalshi-5-2026-08-17.json`
MCP	agentic AI tool call (Claude Desktop, Cursor, Continue)	`clearmarket.get_signal("fed-cut-above-25bp-this-year-kalshi-5-2026-08-17")`
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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    "Business Insider's hike-fade narrative is consistent with no large cut either, the market is pricing a firm hold, not a pivot.",
    "PCE inflation at 3.7% in June, still well above the 2% target, gives the Fed little cover for aggressive easing.",
    "The companion Polymarket hike contract at 47% (CM-EVT-87QV1G78C4) creates an asymmetric picture: roughly even chance of a hike, near-zero chance of a big cut."
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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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