A 50bp Federal Reserve rate cut coming today? History says 'No'.
A snippet via Seema Shah, chief global strategist at Principal Asset Management: “Since the late 1980s…25-basis-point cuts have become the norm, and 50 basis points have been the exception.” Only two rate-cutting cycles have begun with cuts greater than 25 basis points: January 2001, amid the dot-com bubble, and September 2007 during the sub-prime mortgage collapse Both of those…