Near-term Fed funds rate stays below 3.75 percent

Name: Near-term Fed funds rate stays below 3.75 percent
Creator: ClearMarket
Published: 2026-08-17T00:00:00.000Z
License: https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/

Kalshi ladder

record: CMSIG2026081702 | category: momentum-repricing | target: CM-EVT-4ZQLQPNH91 | published: 2026-08-17

4-bullet brief | narrative

Kalshi ladder prices the near-term Fed funds upper bound in the 3.50-3.75% range: 98% above 3.50% but only 29% above 3.75%.
Fading hike bets reported in the news are consistent with this distribution, the sharp drop from 98% to 29% at the 3.75% strike signals the market is treating a move above 3.75% as unlikely.
A companion ladder (CM-EVT-MR57HVWJT3) for a later meeting implies ~3.75-4.00%, with 51% above 3.75%, showing a modest term-structure tilt toward a later hike surviving.
Resolves via Federal Reserve official meeting outcome; upper-bound definition follows FOMC post-meeting statement language.

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: Rate hike bets are fading fast as cooler inflation may give Fed Chair Kevin Warsh political cover to hold rates steady.exa_search → Merin Rebecca Thomas · as_of 2026-08-19T08:31:28+00:00
publisher: Merin Rebecca Thomas
published_at: 2026-08-17T00:00:00.000Z
source_url: https://www.ibtimes.com/fed-rate-hike-bets-are-fading-fast-cooler-inflation-could-leave-warsh-easier-choice-3806427

[02] pm_response

interp: Kalshi ladder shows a hard probability cliff at 3.75%, aligning with widespread Wall Street skepticism about a September move.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/kxfed-26sep/

external

venue_a: https://kalshi.com/markets/KXFED-26SEP-T3.75

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-funds-upper-bound-seen-3-50-3-75-kalshi-ladder-2026-08-17/`
JSON	REST API for developers	`https://clearmarket.fyi/signals/fed-funds-upper-bound-seen-3-50-3-75-kalshi-ladder-2026-08-17.json`
MCP	agentic AI tool call (Claude Desktop, Cursor, Continue)	`clearmarket.get_signal("fed-funds-upper-bound-seen-3-50-3-75-kalshi-ladder-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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    "A companion ladder (CM-EVT-MR57HVWJT3) for a later meeting implies ~3.75-4.00%, with 51% above 3.75%, showing a modest term-structure tilt toward a later hike surviving.",
    "Resolves via Federal Reserve official meeting outcome; upper-bound definition follows FOMC post-meeting statement language."
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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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