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The Market Already Rewrote the Fed’s Chart.

In June the committee penciled in 3.8% for the end of this year. Futures now carry roughly 4.2% by December. That gap is the whole story of today. The decision lands at 2:00 p.m. ET, and futures put it near 92 against 8, so the quarter point is spent. What is not spent is whether the Fed moves its own chart toward the market or leaves it and takes the repricing.
The Breakdown
Today’s disagreement: the Fed’s last published chart and the market’s own price sit forty basis points apart. One of them gets rewritten at two.
01
The Settled Part
The statement and the projections both land at 2:00 p.m. ET, with Chair Warsh taking questions half an hour later. Futures carry the quarter point near 92 against 8. A Reuters poll found 85% of economists in the same place after the August inflation data.
02
The Forty Basis Points
June’s dot plot put the rate at 3.8% by the end of 2026. Futures as of Monday’s close price about 4.2% by December and roughly 4.6% by next September. The market has been trading a path the Fed has not published.
03
Where the Desks Split
Bank of America reads the market as pricing close to 100 basis points of tightening over the next year or so. Its own house view is less in total, around 75, arriving faster. 22V Research expects today’s move plus one more pencilled in for 2026.
By the Numbers
Decision and ProjectionsToday, 2:00 p.m. ET
Current Target Range3.50% to 3.75%
Futures LeanNear 92 against 8
June Dot, End of 20263.8%
Futures, DecemberAbout 4.2%
10-Year Treasury, TuesdayTouched 5.04%, a 2007 high
Futures pricing is a market price rather than a forecast, and it moves through the session. Bank paths are published research views, not our own. Sources: CME FedWatch; Federal Reserve; Kiplinger; Charles Schwab; StreetStats; Benzinga.

One Chart Has to Move

What the Gap Actually Is

Four times a year the Fed publishes where each official thinks the rate should sit. June was the last one. In June that chart put the end of 2026 at 3.8%. Since then came a hot jobs print, a producer price shock and a core inflation reading a tenth above consensus. Futures now carry about 4.2% by December. Forty basis points is not rounding. It is the market saying the committee’s own last word is out of date.

Why Today Settles It

A new chart comes out at two. Either the dots move up to meet the market. That tells you September is the opening move of a campaign, not a one off. Or they hold near June, which tells you the committee thinks the market has run too far. Both answers reprice the front end within minutes. Neither answer is the quarter point everyone has been discussing for a fortnight.

The Two Tells at 2:30

First, the vote. A committee that has held all year is being asked to reverse. Dissent in either direction tells you how settled this really was. Second, how Warsh talks about energy. If he calls oil a shock the Fed looks through, today reads as insurance. If he ties it to inflation expectations, today is the first of several. The ten-year touched 5.04% on Tuesday, a level last seen in 2007, with crude above $108. The bond market has already picked its answer.

The Level to Watch

Skip the headline number. It is already spent. Go to the median dot for the end of 2026 and compare it with 3.8%. If it prints at four or above, the market was right and the June chart was stale. If it holds at 3.8%, expect the front end to give back some of this month’s move by Friday. The line is the December futures price near 4.2%. Where that sits at 2:15 tells you which chart just won.
The rate is the announcement. The chart is the news.

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