How many Fed rate cuts in 2026?

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The Fed’s 2026 rate path is being priced as a clear favourite for at least one 25bp cut, with the market implying 70% for cuts. That sits between Wall Street’s more dovish houses and the harder-line hawks: Goldman Sachs expects two cuts in 2026, while J.P. Morgan sees no move at all for the rest of the year and BNP Paribas has warned hikes could even begin in December. In handicap terms, the consensus is not for a deep easing cycle but for a modest downshift, which leaves the one-cut outcome looking like the central case and the zero-cut or multi-cut extremes as the contrarian tails.

The historical read is that the Fed usually needs either a softer labour market or a decisive inflation break before it moves repeatedly. When growth is resilient and inflation sticky, the Committee tends to pause for longer than markets first expect, and that is the main reason the under may still have value despite the current favourite status of cuts. Recent commentary from J.P. Morgan and Goldman points to sharply different end-states, which is a reminder that the market is highly dependent on incoming data rather than any fixed policy path.

Traders should watch the FOMC calendar, especially the June, September and December meetings, plus any inter-meeting shock that could trigger an emergency move. The key dependencies are inflation prints, payrolls, unemployment, wage growth and any renewed energy-price surge. A Reuters-linked market theme echoed in bank notes this month is that the Fed can stay on hold if the labour market stays firm, but a meaningful slowdown would quickly revive expectations for sequential cuts.

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