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The clip centers on a classic market tug-of-war: traders pausing ahead of the Federal Reserve’s rate decision while big tech earnings and geopolitical shocks jostle for attention. Bloomberg highlights upcoming reports from Microsoft and Alphabet, SK Hynix’s seven-fold profit surge that underscores artificial-intelligence chip demand, and rising oil prices tied to possible US strikes on Iran. Those three threads, macro rate policy, concentrated tech earnings, and geopolitics, are why prices are wobbling before the prints arrive.