Fed rate cut above 25 basis points stays a long shot

Name: Fed rate cut above 25 basis points stays a long shot
Creator: ClearMarket
Published: 2026-10-22T00:00:00.000Z
License: https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/

Kalshi 3%

record: CMSIG2026102203 | category: momentum-repricing | target: CM-EVT-RWRZ1R3SD6 | published: 2026-10-22

4-bullet brief | narrative

Kalshi prices only 3% odds on any Fed rate cut exceeding 25 basis points in 2026.
Reaccelerating CPI nowcast to 3.75% is consistent with Kalshi's near-zero probability on an oversized cut this year.
Fed Governor Chicago Fed President Austan Goolsbee's warning about persistent price pressures (Story 6) reinforces the same directional read.
Resolves via Federal Reserve official policy announcement; any emergency easing move would need to exceed 25 basis points to trigger a yes resolution.

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: Cleveland Fed nowcast puts October CPI at 3.75% year-over-year, well above August's 3.4% print, shrinking the real rate buffer to roughly 30 basis points.exa_search → the-weekly-investor.com · as_of 2026-10-23T07:48:07+00:00
publisher: the-weekly-investor.com
published_at: 2026-10-22T00:00:00.000Z
source_url: https://www.the-weekly-investor.com/articles/feds-real-rate-buffer-is-30-bps-and-shrinking-1792667103826

[02] pm_response

interp: Kalshi at 3% shows the market fully dismisses dovish pivot scenarios for 2026, aligning with both the nowcast and Fed communications.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-over-25bps-this-year-kalshi-3-2026-10-22/`
JSON	REST API for developers	`https://clearmarket.fyi/signals/fed-cut-over-25bps-this-year-kalshi-3-2026-10-22.json`
MCP	agentic AI tool call (Claude Desktop, Cursor, Continue)	`clearmarket.get_signal("fed-cut-over-25bps-this-year-kalshi-3-2026-10-22")`
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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    "Fed Governor Chicago Fed President Austan Goolsbee's warning about persistent price pressures (Story 6) reinforces the same directional read.",
    "Resolves via Federal Reserve official policy announcement; any emergency easing move would need to exceed 25 basis points to trigger a yes resolution."
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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 CMSIG2026102203 published 2026-10-22T00:00:00.000Z signature sha256-ec72cc97540… ← underlying event all signals →