§ DESK · 03 · FEDERAL RESERVE

The Fed.

What Powell said, what he meant, and what the bond market heard instead. Dot-plot deltas, FOMC probabilities, and a live speakers calendar.

Stance · Hawkish HoldNext FOMC · JUN 17 · 30 DAYSDot plot ·
TARGET RATE
5.25–5.50%
Unchanged since Jul 2023
MARKET-IMPLIED · 2026 CUTS
Probability cron TBD
NEXT MEETING
Probability cron TBD
QT PACE
+$31B/WK
Derived from WALCL 30d Δ
§ 01 · FOMC PROBABILITY · MAY 01

What the market is pricing

Market-implied probabilities pending
FOMC PROBABILITIES

CME FedWatch-style market-implied cut/hold probabilities ship with the fomc_probabilities cron. Until then this bar shows nothing rather than fabricated percentages.

TERMINAL RATE · DOT PLOT Δ
HorizonMar dotsJun dotsΔMarket
2026 year-end
2027 year-end
2028 year-end
Longer run
DOT PLOT

SEP median dots (March / June) + market-implied forward rates ship with the fomc_dot_plot cron.

§ 02 · AC READ

What the Fed just did to you

Hawkish Hold

Hawkish Hold · Fed read

Fed maintaining restrictive stance. Rate cut expectations pushed to H2. Balance sheet runoff continues at $60B/month.

§ 03 · SPEAKER CALENDAR

Who is on the wire this week

WEEK 21 · MAY 18—22
SPEAKER CALENDAR

Weekly Fed speakers table ships when the fed_speakers ingest (CNBC / Reuters speakers rail) lands. Until then we render nothing instead of hardcoded names that would rotate week to week.

§ 04 · TONE TRACKER

Hawk ↔ Dove · rolling 30d

TONE TRACKER

Aggregate hawk/dove sentiment from the last 30 days of Fed speakers ships alongside the fed_speakers pipeline. The previous SVG curve was a deterministic PRNG, not real sentiment data.

§ 05 · OUR FED COVERAGE

Recent notes