Good morning, traders. Happy Tuesday, October 1, the first day of the fourth quarter. The market is falling after breaking news from that Iran is preparing to attack Isreal. Risk assets climbed: silver and gold climbed 1% and Oil futures jumped 3%.
Right after 9:40 am, U.S. White House officials released a statement that Iran was preparing to hit Israel with Ballistic missiles.
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The much-anticipated rate cut decision has finally arrived, with the Federal Reserve announcing a 50 basis point rate cut! At this pivotal moment, investors need to have a deeper understanding of the background and impact of rate cuts.
Since March 2022, in a bid to curb inflation, the Fed has hiked rates 11 times, bringing it to the current range of 5.25%-5.50%. Now that inflation is under control, the calls for a rate cut are growin...

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The September FOMC meeting is approaching, and the market generally believes that a rate cut is highly likely, which will be a significant turning point in this year's monetary policy.
How will interest rate cuts affect the stock market? How will the S&P 500 index react? Come on mooers, let's try to predict its possible direction!
Prediction time!
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Last week, the Dow Jones Industrial Average and S&P 500 Index moved back toward record highs, as investors appeared to celebrate Federal Reserve Chair Jerome Powell’s announcement that interest rate cuts would soon be coming. The gains were also broad-based, with small-caps outperforming large-caps and an equal-weighted version of the S&P 500 Index outpacing its more familiar, capitalization-weighted counterpart.
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