We have a busy week ahead of us in the stock market, though we already know the most consequential event awaiting market participants: Wednesday’s decision on monetary policy from the U.S. Federal Open Market Committee (FOMC). It is widely expected that the Fed will cut rates at this meeting for the first time in 2025; the FOMC had cut rates by 100 basis points (bps) in the final three meetings of 2024.There are two different trajectories complicating the Fed’s decision, based on its dual-mandate: full empl ...