{"id":149356,"date":"2025-09-17T08:47:07","date_gmt":"2025-09-17T08:47:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/149356\/"},"modified":"2025-09-17T08:47:07","modified_gmt":"2025-09-17T08:47:07","slug":"bond-traders-boost-bets-on-half-point-fed-rate-cuts-by-year-end","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/149356\/","title":{"rendered":"Bond Traders Boost Bets on Half-Point Fed Rate Cuts by Year-End"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"ArticleBodyText_articleBodyContent__17wqE typography_articleBody__3UcBa\" data-component=\"paragraph\">Bond traders are stepping up options wagers that the Federal Reserve will deliver at least one half-point interest-rate cut across this year\u2019s three remaining policy meetings. <\/p>\n<p class=\"ArticleBodyText_articleBodyContent__17wqE typography_articleBody__3UcBa\" data-component=\"paragraph\">Officials are projected to lower borrowing costs on Wednesday for the first time in 2025, with a quarter-point reduction seen as the most likely decision. But <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bloomberg.com\/news\/articles\/2025-09-11\/us-initial-jobless-claims-jump-to-highest-in-almost-four-years\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\" class=\"media-ui-Link_link-tVkXhPLPofs-\" data-component=\"link\">a cooling labor market<\/a> is leading some traders to hedge against the risk that a souring economic outlook leads to bigger moves in the coming months, even as inflation remains sticky. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Bond traders are stepping up options wagers that the Federal Reserve will deliver at least one half-point interest-rate&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":149357,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[12],"tags":[64,63,5471,99,5127,176,47733,5465,20734,5058,1788,171,10839,100544],"class_list":["post-149356","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-markets","tag-au","tag-australia","tag-bonds","tag-business","tag-chicago","tag-federal-reserve","tag-hedge-funds","tag-inflation","tag-jay-powell","tag-jpmorgan-chase-co","tag-labor","tag-markets","tag-policy","tag-standard-chartered-plc"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/149356","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=149356"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/149356\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/149357"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=149356"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=149356"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=149356"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}