Stocks Rise on Rate Cut Hopes: Financial News - Yahoo! Finance
"Anticipation of another Fed rate cut is the main magnet in the market today," said Alfred E. Goldman, chief market strategist at A.G. Edwards & Sons Inc.
He was skeptical the gains would stick -- anything the Fed decides after its two-day meeting lets out Wednesday could be met with disappointment. If the rate cut is small or nonexistent, the market will likely be unsatisfied; if the cut is wide, the market may worry the economy is worse than it thought.
"If we do rally into a Fed rate cut, we have a lose-lose situation," Goldman said.
And traders who bet on the Fed's next move were pricing in a more than 80 percent chance of a half-point cut.
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