It's not clear whether the 2023 FOMC pattern of weakness into the meeting and a rally afterward will appear again, mainly because the market had been rallying into the July meeting, which is a different pattern than all of the other meetings this year.
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I am very conflicted about the short-term direction of stock prices.
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