Fed funds rate seen holding near 3.50-3.75% after September

Name: Fed funds rate seen holding near 3.50-3.75% after September
Creator: ClearMarket
Published: 2026-08-14T17:59:28.000Z
License: https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/

Kalshi ladder

record: CMSIG2026081401 | category: momentum-repricing | target: CM-EVT-4ZQLQPNH91 | published: 2026-08-14

4-bullet brief | narrative

Kalshi ladder pins the post-September Fed funds upper bound in the 3.50-3.75% range: 98% above 3.50%, only 26% above 3.75%.
News reports a market consensus for a September pause; the Kalshi distribution is consistent, showing near-zero probability of rates at 4.0% or above.
Jackson Hole in two weeks is the next catalyst; the sharp drop from 98% to 26% between the 3.50% and 3.75% strikes signals the market sees the current range as the likely landing zone.
Companion Kalshi contract CM-EVT-P1KKDFWZ42 puts only 50% on any Fed rate hike across the full 2026-2028 series, reflecting deep uncertainty beyond the near-term hold.

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: Markets are betting on a Fed pause in September ahead of Jackson Hole, even as hawk officials resist cutting amid sticky inflation.exa_search → uk.finance.yahoo.com · as_of 2026-08-15T08:21:50+00:00
publisher: uk.finance.yahoo.com
published_at: 2026-08-14T17:59:28.000Z
source_url: https://uk.finance.yahoo.com/news/markets-bet-on-a-pause-for-september-but-fed-hawks-may-not-be-swayed-ahead-of-jackson-hole-175928197.html

[02] pm_response

interp: Kalshi ladder pricing is consistent with the reported pause consensus and leaves virtually no probability mass above 4.0%.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/post-sept-fed-funds-upper-bound-kalshi-3-50-3-75-2026-08-14/`
JSON	REST API for developers	`https://clearmarket.fyi/signals/post-sept-fed-funds-upper-bound-kalshi-3-50-3-75-2026-08-14.json`
MCP	agentic AI tool call (Claude Desktop, Cursor, Continue)	`clearmarket.get_signal("post-sept-fed-funds-upper-bound-kalshi-3-50-3-75-2026-08-14")`
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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    "News reports a market consensus for a September pause; the Kalshi distribution is consistent, showing near-zero probability of rates at 4.0% or above.",
    "Jackson Hole in two weeks is the next catalyst; the sharp drop from 98% to 26% between the 3.50% and 3.75% strikes signals the market sees the current range as the likely landing zone.",
    "Companion Kalshi contract CM-EVT-P1KKDFWZ42 puts only 50% on any Fed rate hike across the full 2026-2028 series, reflecting deep uncertainty beyond the near-term hold."
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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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