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Friday, September 20th, 2024We still have an entire trading day left for this week, but it feels as though we’ve already finished getting through something big. And, of course, we have: the new Fed cycle of easing interest rates began Wednesday — with a 50 basis-point (bps) cut, instead of a mere 25 bps — after a year and a half of raising rates, sometimes aggressively, and another year-plus of remaining at the highest levels in decades.Market indexes are mildly mixed at this hour, after a 500-poi