Pronóstico: Fed Decision in October?

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Market context

The October 2026 Federal Reserve meeting is the event that will decide whether the upper bound of the target federal funds range is lifted from its level before that meeting, with this market settling on the size of any move in basis points. The current crowd-implied **1% Yes** price is far below where futures-linked and prediction-market pricing has sat in recent months, with Reuters reporting around a 60% chance of a hike by the October meeting in June and CME FedWatch-based coverage later putting October hike odds materially higher as the year progressed.[5][2]

History for this kind of market tends to hinge on whether the Fed is still wrestling with sticky inflation and firm labour data by late summer, because those are the conditions that have pushed traders towards a hike rather than a hold. Recent market snapshots have shown a split between a likely unchanged outcome and a smaller but non-trivial hike tail: one Polymarket feed showed about 68% for no change and 24% for a 25 bps increase, while a separate Reuters report said short-term rate traders had moved to roughly 60% odds of a hike by October.[7][5] That is a very different shape from the current 1% Yes price, which implies the market is treating an October move as an extreme outcome.

The main catalysts are the remaining data releases before the 27–28 October FOMC meeting, especially inflation prints, payrolls, and any shift in growth or unemployment trends that could alter the Fed’s reaction function. The Fed’s official calendar confirms the October meeting dates, and because the target range decision is made at FOMC meetings, traders will focus on whether incoming data force the Committee to reprice policy before the late-October decision.[1][14] Any sharp change in rates pricing, especially after a hot CPI or stronger labour report, would be the quickest route for this market to move away from the current near-zero hike expectation.[10][5]

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