{"id":240228,"date":"2026-03-13T12:15:00","date_gmt":"2026-03-13T16:15:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ibkrcampus.com\/campus\/?p=240228"},"modified":"2026-03-16T04:58:52","modified_gmt":"2026-03-16T08:58:52","slug":"alas-poor-rate-cuts","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.interactivebrokers.com\/campus\/traders-insight\/securities\/macro\/alas-poor-rate-cuts\/","title":{"rendered":"Alas, Poor Rate Cuts"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Who among us is old enough to remember the heady days when sustained rate cuts were a key underlying investment thesis for stocks?&nbsp; \u201cBut wait,\u201d you say, \u201cthat was only a few weeks ago.\u201d&nbsp; Indeed, it was, but expectations for those cuts have plunged recently.&nbsp; While stocks haven\u2019t exactly been roaring ahead, the perceived change in monetary policy is being treated as yet another minor inconvenience for equities.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Yesterday marked a sea change in fixed income traders\u2019 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Hormuz.&nbsp; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.interactivebrokers.com\/campus\/traders-insight\/securities\/macro\/a-black-swan-yawns\/\">As we have discussed<\/a>, this has long been one of the \u201cblack swan\u201d events that risk managers feared.&nbsp; Conventional wisdom expected oil to rise to $150\/barrel or more, a stock market correction of about 10%, and a flight to safety boosting the dollar and suppressing US Treasury yields.&nbsp; Although we can\u2019t ignore oil near $100\/barrel and the modest selling in global stocks, the magnitude of neither move is anywhere near the perceived worst-case scenarios.&nbsp; While the dollar has improved against a basket of major currencies, that too has been within normal trading parameters, leading us to be able to question how much can be attributed to safe haven buying versus how much it is because rates have risen.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Monetary policy can and should be fluid, responding to changes in credit markets, and of course to factors that influence the Federal Reserve\u2019s dual mandate \u2013 stable prices and maximum sustainable employment.&nbsp; The problem for Fed watchers is that all those factors are murky at best and troublesome at worst.&nbsp; The spike in energy prices is obviously creating price pressures, even <a href=\"https:\/\/finance.yahoo.com\/video\/february-inflation-data-decent-fed-135843717.html\">as Wednesday\u2019s CPI<\/a> and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bea.gov\/sites\/default\/files\/2026-03\/gdp4q25-2nd.pdf\">this morning\u2019s Core PCE<\/a> reports showed relatively tame inflation, albeit still above the Fed\u2019s target.&nbsp; Last Friday\u2019s employment report was unpleasant, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.interactivebrokers.com\/campus\/traders-insight\/securities\/macro\/this-is-actually-a-good-day-considering\/\">to say the least<\/a>, with a major shortfall in Nonfarm Payrolls and a rise in the Unemployment Rate despite lower Labor Force Participation, and <a 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