{"id":435305,"date":"2026-08-03T17:11:49","date_gmt":"2026-08-03T10:11:49","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.swingfish.trade\/blog\/market-news\/feds-williams-says-well-aware-of-market-pricing-but-fed-is-not-obliged-to-ratify-market-levels-435305\/"},"modified":"2026-08-03T17:11:49","modified_gmt":"2026-08-03T10:11:49","slug":"feds-williams-says-well-aware-of-market-pricing-but-fed-is-not-obliged-to-ratify-market-levels","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.swingfish.trade\/blog\/market-news\/feds-williams-says-well-aware-of-market-pricing-but-fed-is-not-obliged-to-ratify-market-levels-435305\/","title":{"rendered":"Fed&#8217;s Williams says well aware of market pricing but Fed is not obliged to ratify market levels"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n<ul>\n<li>Believes that Fed rate policy is &#8216;well positioned&#8217; to achieve 2% inflation target<\/li>\n<li>If inflation is not on track to hit 2% level, Fed will act in order to ensure price stability<\/li>\n<li>Strongly supported the latest FOMC decision<\/li>\n<li>Fed is very committed to getting inflation back to 2%<\/li>\n<li>Remains optimistic that inflation pressures will gradually ease<\/li>\n<li>Acknowledges uncertainty surrounding impact of Middle East conflict but expects inflation impact to cool<\/li>\n<li>Market pricing provides Fed with valuable information<\/li>\n<li>Aware of market pricing but Fed is not obliged to ratify market levels<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify\" class=\"text-align-justify\">He&#8217;s just reaffirming the Fed&#8217;s current stance following their July policy decision. Considering his more centrist\/neutral position mostly (with a slight dovish lean), the remarks above fit with that as they are nothing hawkish whatsoever. So, there isn&#8217;t anything all too surprising.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify\" class=\"text-align-justify\">The headline remark is perhaps the most notable with markets now pricing in ~63% odds of a rate hike for September next.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify\" class=\"text-align-justify\">That being said, his statement reads more as a &#8220;I cannot confirm nor deny&#8221; if market pricing is fitting with what the Fed will do next month. So, we&#8217;ll just have to wait and see for the most part.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify\" class=\"text-align-justify\">Upcoming economic data will play a crucial role but also how the US-Iran conflict will change in the weeks ahead. Looking to year-end, markets are pricing in ~34 bps of rate hikes with ~50 bps of rate hikes priced by the middle of next year.<\/p>\n<\/p>\n<p>                            This article was written by Justin Low at investinglive.com.<\/p><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Believes that Fed rate policy is &#8216;well positioned&#8217; to achieve 2% inflation target If inflation is not on track to hit 2% level, Fed will act in order to ensure price stability&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":216,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[86],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-435305","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-market-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.swingfish.trade\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/435305","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.swingfish.trade\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.swingfish.trade\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.swingfish.trade\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/216"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.swingfish.trade\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=435305"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.swingfish.trade\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/435305\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.swingfish.trade\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=435305"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.swingfish.trade\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=435305"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.swingfish.trade\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=435305"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}