Updated ~3:52 p.m. ET: Multi-outlet coverage now confirms both Thursday’s watched Fed speakers delivered hawkish-leaning tone after Governor Barr’s midweek remarks. Speaking in London at the National Institute of Economic and Social Research, New York Fed President John Williams (also FOMC vice chair) said market forecasts that “another rate hike may be appropriate by the end of the year” seem “a reasonable way of thinking about it,” while stressing data dependence and that explicit forward guidance is “over,” Reuters and Mortgage Professional America report. He called inflation the “big challenge” and said the Fed wants a timely return to 2%.

Separately, Cleveland Fed President Beth Hammack told her bank’s Inflation: Drivers and Dynamics conference that output is solid and the labor market near maximum employment, but “inflation remains elevated,” the outlook is “highly uncertain, with risks tilted to the upside,” and the longer high inflation persists the harder and costlier it is to bring down — Reuters and InvestingLive.

Accounts agree the speaker slate reinforces a re-tightening path after the Sept. 16 hike to 3.75%–4.00%; they diverge on October certainty (Williams would not commit; futures odds cited variously in the mid-to-high 70s on CME FedWatch) and on how much Hammack’s upside-risk language adds beyond Barr. This card does not invent an October decision.

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