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Rate-Hike Odds Just Finished Their Wildest Month-Long Round Trip
October Fed rate-hike expectations have now collapsed to a cycle low — capping one of the sharpest sentiment swings markets have seen all year, all within a matter of weeks.
Here's the full arc: hike odds for October sat below 9% a month ago, climbed as high as 70-75% by late September on strong PMI data and hawkish Fed commentary, then reversed sharply after September's jobs report showed just 29,000 jobs added — far below the roughly 80,000 expected. CME's FedWatch tool now puts October hike odds at just 17%, down from 28% before the report, with traders assigning an 83% probability the Fed holds steady at its October 28 meeting. Kalshi and Polymarket show similar pricing, with hold probability near 84%. Notably, this isn't a shift toward easing broadly — December hike odds remain elevated, sitting above 75-83% across these same platforms, suggesting traders see this as a pause rather than a pivot.
Why does this matter? Few macro variables move markets as directly as Fed rate expectations, and a swing this dramatic in under a month shows just how sensitive current pricing is to each new data release. With December hike odds still high, the underlying inflation and growth tension hasn't actually resolved — it's just been pushed one meeting further out, keeping markets on edge heading into year-end.
Whether December brings the hike markets are still pricing in, or another data surprise resets expectations again, remains genuinely open.
After a month like this, how much weight should markets really put on any single rate-odds snapshot? 🤔
#FederalReserve #RateHike #Macro #CryptoMarkets
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Rate-Hike Odds Just Finished Their Wildest Month-Long Round Trip
October Fed rate-hike expectations have now collapsed to a cycle low — capping one of the sharpest sentiment swings markets have seen all year, all within a matter of weeks.
Here's the full arc: hike odds for October sat below 9% a month ago, climbed as high as 70-75% by late September on strong PMI data and hawkish Fed commentary, then reversed sharply after September's jobs report showed just 29,000 jobs added — far below the roughly 80,000 expected. CME's FedWatch tool now puts October hike odds at just 17%, down from 28% before the report, with traders assigning an 83% probability the Fed holds steady at its October 28 meeting. Kalshi and Polymarket show similar pricing, with hold probability near 84%. Notably, this isn't a shift toward easing broadly — December hike odds remain elevated, sitting above 75-83% across these same platforms, suggesting traders see this as a pause rather than a pivot.
Why does this matter? Few macro variables move markets as directly as Fed rate expectations, and a swing this dramatic in under a month shows just how sensitive current pricing is to each new data release. With December hike odds still high, the underlying inflation and growth tension hasn't actually resolved — it's just been pushed one meeting further out, keeping markets on edge heading into year-end.
Whether December brings the hike markets are still pricing in, or another data surprise resets expectations again, remains genuinely open.
After a month like this, how much weight should markets really put on any single rate-odds snapshot? 🤔
#FederalReserve #RateHike #Macro #CryptoMarkets
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