{"id":229964,"date":"2025-09-15T23:59:14","date_gmt":"2025-09-15T23:59:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/229964\/"},"modified":"2025-09-15T23:59:14","modified_gmt":"2025-09-15T23:59:14","slug":"us-stocks-close-at-record-highs-ahead-of-fed-rate-cut-decision","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/229964\/","title":{"rendered":"US stocks close at record highs ahead of Fed rate cut decision"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"yf-1090901\">US stocks shot to record highs Monday as investors bet that an interest rate trim this week and tax cuts will provide a fresh economic boost.<\/p>\n<p class=\"yf-1090901\">The so-called \u201c<a href=\"https:\/\/www.wsj.com\/finance\/stocks\/stock-trading-records-run-it-hot-74eddc91?mod=hp_lead_pos6\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" data-ylk=\"slk:run it hot;elm:context_link;itc:0;sec:content-canvas\" class=\"link \">run it hot<\/a>\u201d trade is booming despite warning signs in the US labor market and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.economist.com\/finance-and-economics\/2025\/09\/14\/americas-economy-defies-gloomy-expectations\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" data-ylk=\"slk:gloomy narratives;elm:context_link;itc:0;sec:content-canvas\" class=\"link \">gloomy narratives<\/a> of an economic slowdown. Some experts are skeptical: The Federal Reserve\u2019s widely expected decision to cut rates on Wednesday \u201cconvinces people that the Fed is scared of a recession \u2014 so they become scared of a recession,\u201d one analyst said.<\/p>\n<p class=\"yf-1090901\">The stock market is also reliant on \u201can increasingly <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2025\/09\/15\/opinion\/stock-market-corporate-governance-ipo.html\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" data-ylk=\"slk:narrow slice of the economy;elm:context_link;itc:0;sec:content-canvas\" class=\"link \">narrow slice of the economy<\/a>\u201d as fewer big-name companies go public, masking deeper structural risks, a business law professor argued in The New York Times.<\/p>\n<p>    <img fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"data:image\/gif;base64,R0lGODlhAQABAIAAAAAAAP\/\/\/ywAAAAAAQABAAACAUwAOw==\" alt=\"Chart showing three-month stock index performance.\" loading=\"eager\" height=\"913\" width=\"960\" class=\"yf-1gfnohs loader\"\/> Chart showing three-month stock index performance.      <\/p>\n<p class=\"yf-1090901\">\u2014 <a href=\"https:\/\/www.semafor.com\/author\/jd-capelouto\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" data-ylk=\"slk:J.D. Capelouto;elm:context_link;itc:0;sec:content-canvas\" class=\"link \">J.D. Capelouto<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"US stocks shot to record highs Monday as investors bet that an interest rate trim this week and&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":229965,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[13],"tags":[64,2025,19549,135,2437,67,132,68,72740,79829],"class_list":{"0":"post-229964","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-markets","8":"tag-business","9":"tag-economic-slowdown","10":"tag-interest-rate","11":"tag-markets","12":"tag-stock-market","13":"tag-united-states","14":"tag-unitedstates","15":"tag-us","16":"tag-us-labor-market","17":"tag-warning-signs"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@us\/115211033891084260","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/229964","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=229964"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/229964\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/229965"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=229964"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=229964"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=229964"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}