Trick or treat from the Fed next week? Rate cut looms

With less than 10 days to go until U.S. monetary policy makers next meet, the only thing that could spook markets this spooky season would be a status quo in interest rates. Most bets are on a cut in borrowing costs by the Federal Open Market Committee, which is scheduled to meet only two more times this year as the government shutdown drags on. That acknowledgment "…