PolymarketMacro / FedConfirmed moveUpdated 10m ago

Will the Fed increase interest rates by 25 bps after the December 2026 meeting?

As of Nov 2, 2026, 2:59 PM ET, Polymarket priced this market at 73.5% (up from 70.5% 24 hours earlier). It had $228.2K traded in the past 24 hours, $359K of order-book liquidity and a bid-ask spread of 1.0 pts. probcast.co rates the support behind this price as strong.

Market probability
73.5%
+3 percentage points
over 24 hours70.5% → 73.5%

Deep, easy-to-trade market — today's move came from a small group of accounts.

Price historyPolymarket

Source: Polymarket price history

How credible was the move?

Methodology →

Move validity

Strong

Consensus stability

Forming

Contract clarity

High

Can you trust this price?

Two different questions: how hard the price is to move, and whose trading set it.

Market capacity

How hard is it to move this price?

DeepTight spread

Order-book liquidity

$359K

Bid-ask spread

1.0 pts

24h volume

$228.2K

Total volume

$2.6M

It would take roughly $214K of buying to move the price up by ~5 pts.

Lots of money on the book and a tight spread — a single ordinary order can't move this price much.

Who's trading

Whose opinion is this price?

A few accounts
39%of the traded money came from the single largest account

Accounts

132

Trades

200

over 2 days

Largest order

$71.8K

$183.9K traded across these 200 trades (last 2 days).

A small group of accounts did most of the trading — neither one whale nor a broad crowd.

Recent trade activity$183.9K traded

From the latest trade tape (most recent 200 prints) — a live activity sample, not a lifetime total.

What this market actually measures

The FED interest rates are defined in this market by the upper bound of the target federal funds range. The decisions on the target federal funds range are made by the Federal Open Market Committee (FOMC) meetings.

This summary shows the opening of the venue's official rules. ProbCast has not yet generated an independent plain-English interpretation for this contract — review the full rules before relying on it.

View full official resolution rules

The FED interest rates are defined in this market by the upper bound of the target federal funds range. The decisions on the target federal funds range are made by the Federal Open Market Committee (FOMC) meetings. This market will resolve to the amount of basis points the upper bound of the target federal funds rate is changed by versus the level it was prior to the Federal Reserve's December 2026 meeting. If the target federal funds rate is changed to a level not expressed in the displayed options, the change will be rounded up to the nearest 25 and will resolve to the relevant bracket. (e.g. if there's a cut/increase of 12.5 bps it will be considered to be 25 bps) The resolution source for this market is the FOMC’s statement after its meeting scheduled for December 8-9, 2026 according to the official calendar: https://www.federalreserve.gov/monetarypolicy/fomccalendars.htm. The level and change of the target federal funds rate is also published at the official website of the Federal Reserve at https://www.federalreserve.gov/monetarypolicy/openmarket.htm. This market may resolve as soon as the FOMC’s statement for their December meeting with relevant data is issued. If no statement is released by the end date of the next scheduled meeting, this market will resolve to the "No change" bracket.

Resolution source: federalreserve.gov

Why the odds moved

The probability rose 3.0 percentage points over the last 24 hours (70.5% → 73.5%).

No verified catalyst has been linked to this move yet. ProbCast does not attribute moves to news without evidence connecting the timing of a specific report to the repricing.

What could move this market next?

  • The scheduled event takes placeDecember 9, 2026 at 6:59 PM ET

    The contract resolves on the event's outcome.

  • Confirmation at the resolution source (federalreserve.gov)

    The rules name this source as the basis for settlement.

Derived from the contract's own mechanics as of Nov 2, 3:09 PM ET. ProbCast does not list scheduled meetings, announcements, or data releases it cannot verify.

Advanced analysis (experimental)

Research signals — these models are still accumulating the history needed for full validation, and they can disagree with the headline read. Model confidence: medium · expected error ±12 pts.

Reacting to newsLegacy movement classifier: meaningful

What's happening

medium classifier confidence
Reacting to news

The price is actively repricing on real volume. The number is still moving — don't treat the latest print as settled consensus yet.

  • Probability moved 3.0 pts in ≤6h on adequate liquidity
  • Flow one-directional across 132 participants (broad, not a single order)

The latest price is a usable but caveated read — weigh it with the market state.

More details — reliability score, dynamics, durability
Reliability score
48Medium
Where the price path tends to go next128 observed
  • Trend continuation79%
  • Choppy / mean-reverting12%
  • Stable consensus8%

Short-term motion of the price line (~1h), distinct from the environment above — not a prediction of the final outcome.

DurabilityHigh· half-life ~8h
PredictabilityStable

Secondary read: leaning toward Trading normally.

A read-only classification of the market environment — how much weight the current price deserves as a read of consensus. It describes conditions, never a trade.

Change (pts)1H0.06H+3.024H+3.07D+3.0

Cross-venue check

1.0 pts apart
Match: normalized event signature (moderate match)

Kalshi prices this same question at 73% vs Polymarket at 74%. The venues broadly agree, which adds confidence to the price.

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