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The signal from Jackson Hole is clearer than what markets got in July.
Fed Chairman Kevin Warsh used the annual symposium to sharpen his inflation warning and make the more direct case for higher interest rates, walking back ambiguity that had confused markets at his earlier press conference.
The next confirmable milestone is the formal Fed communications window, where that hawkish framing will either hold or soften. The July press conference is the relevant starting point.
Warsh's remarks there left markets working through competing reads of where the Fed stood on inflation, and that interpretive uncertainty tends to price in unevenly across rate-sensitive positioning.
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