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The clip flags two calendar items that usually move markets: a Federal Open Market Committee (FOMC) interest-rate decision and a heavy week of mega-cap earnings from Alphabet, Amazon, and Microsoft. The host highlights that guidance from those large companies plus the Fed’s language on rates can create outsized volatility, because investors have concentrated positions in a handful of names. The combination of macro policy and clustered earnings often produces sharp intraweek swings rather than a single steady trend.