Interestingly enough, despite Tuesday’s stronger round of US data, the market is still pricing a 65% chance the Fed goes ahead with a 50-basis point rate cut later today. This view is grounded in the fact that the Fed needs to play catchup with an ongoing deterioration in the US economy.

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