[ROLLING HEADLINE] Fed Jackson Hole speakers and ad-hoc interviews

Official schedule to be released around 01:00 BST on 28th August 2026

August 27th

  • 07:30 EDT / 12:30 BST - Fed's Schmid (2028 Voter, Hawk) Fox Business
  • TBC - Fed's Schmid (2028 Voter, Hawk) CNBC Interview
  • 10:00 EDT / 15:00 BST - Fed's Hammack (2026 Voter, Hawk, Dissenter) CNBC interview
  • 13:00 EDT / 18:00 BST - Fed's Hammack (2026 Voter, Hawk, Dissenter) Fox News

August 28th

  • 15:00 BST/10:00 EDT - Fed Chair Warsh to speak (last year, Powell's speech was published at 15:00 BST)
Context

Jackson Hole has historically been the venue where the Fed chair's speech carries more signal than routine Fedspeak, having served on multiple past occasions as the launch point for policy pivots, framework shifts, and pushes against market pricing of the rate path. The pattern in prior episodes is that the chair's text sets the tone for the weeks leading into the September meeting, with the front end re-pricing most sharply when the remarks break from the prevailing committee consensus rather than merely restating it. The pre-speech interviews from the hawkish wing matter mainly as calibration: comments from officials known for dissents and hawkish leanings tend to define the tail of the distribution, and the tell is whether the chair echoes, softens, or implicitly rebuts that framing. With a dissenting voter among the speakers, past practice suggests the Q&A and prepared text around the chair's remarks, including any language on balance of risks or reaction function, will be parsed line by line. The schedule release and the speech publication time are the immediate calendar markers, with follow-on commentary from other officials the next test of where the median voter sits.

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