[CALENDAR ADDITION] Fed's Hammack (2026 Voter, Hawk) to take part in a Yahoo Finance interview

Scheduled media appearances by Fed officials are routine fixtures on the calendar, and interviews with regional presidents have historically moved front-end pricing only when the speaker departs from their established line. The relevant frame here is prior form: Hammack carries a hawkish reputation and a dissenting record, so the base case is commentary that sits toward the restrictive end of the committee's distribution rather than at its median, which limits the signal value for the policy path since it is the centre of gravity, not the tails, that sets direction. The distinction worth drawing is between remarks that repeat a known position and those that shift it; only the latter tends to reprice the front of the curve or the dollar. The format itself matters: a television interview is unscripted, and off-the-cuff answers on the timing and pace of easing have on past occasions generated more colour than prepared remarks. Follow-ons are whether the comments are echoed or countered by other officials on the same calendar window, and whether the interviewer draws out anything on the balance sheet or the next set of projections. As a calendar flag rather than a print, the entry is informational.