How will the Federal Reserve spend its next couple of months? Actually, wait until the week ahead is through before making a prediction. The latest bundle of jobs data due out in the coming days will help shape the market's expectations for interest rate cuts at the central bank's final two policy meetings of the year, in late October and the second week of December. The market assigned a roughly two-thirds chance that the Fed's benchmark overnight lending rate would be half a percentage point lower at year-end, according to the CME Group FedWatch tool. Odds of just a single quarter-point reduction by year-end stand at about a third — far from a longshot possibility. The in-line reading on the August core personal consumption expenditures price index did not change the conversation. The Fe

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