Today Jerome Powell and the Federal Reserve is holding an FOMC meeting and before the meeting the members are talking among themselves about ending their QT bond program. This all represents the end of the tightening cycle and is helping to put in a top in the US dollar index on the technical analysis charts and is an attempt to stop any future stock market drops.
I did a video to talk about this you can watch here:
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