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XRP Drops Nearly 8% Ahead of Fed Decision and Following CLARITY Act Setback
XRP declined toward $1.29 as traders weighed a likely Federal Reserve interest rate increase alongside the Senate's blocking of crypto legislation.
XRP fell 7.98% over the past 24 hours to approximately $1.29 leading into the Federal Reserve's policy announcement on September 16, 2026. The decline coincides with a 92% probability of a 25 basis point rate hike projected by the CME FedWatch tool, as well as the Senate's failure to advance the CLARITY Act just one day prior.
The expected shift to a 3.75%–4.00% target range follows persistent inflation, with August consumer price growth at 3.4% and energy prices climbing amid geopolitical tensions with Iran. With diesel reaching $6 per gallon and the 10-year Treasury yield rising to 4.97% on September 14, most economists polled by Reuters anticipate a hike at the current meeting followed by another by the end of March.
Despite broad consensus for tightening, Standard Chartered analysts John Davies and Steve Englander have advocated maintaining current rate levels, pointing to the low cost of waiting and cautioning against inflated market expectations. The announcement will also reveal updated quarterly dot plot interest rate projections from Federal Reserve policymakers.
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