Fed Goes Big | Market Performance After Rate Cuts | Election Volatility in VIX Futures Is a Crowded Trade | Year End S&P 500 Predictions

Derek Moore and Jay Pestrichelli are back to do a post Fed 50 basis point cut analysis. What typically happens a year later in markets after the first interest rate cut? Maybe there isn’t election volatility priced into the VIX and it’s all to do with interest rates. Plus, looking back at the S&P 500 year end 2024 predictions top investment banks made in December of 2023. Hint, it didn’t go the way they expected. How many new all-time highs have we had this year and how does that compare with past years?

More all-time highs

All-time highs by month

Will the market go to 6000?

Jay Powell goes big but what does it mean for markets?

Contrarian corner TIPS Bond ETFs and Gold

VIX Futures over the next couple months

Mentioned in this Episode

Fed Decision Primer | CPI Disappoints? | Market Breakout or Breakdown? | Too Many Cuts Priced In? https://open.spotify.com/episode/6eFhqLyirKKiHKl7yYVDNV?si=08e63f4f058a4d44

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