When markets reach equilibrium with little new demonstrative information, you get days like today. The trades move up slightly or down a little and look like both sides of nothing. In the old days, this is when pit traders were able to read their latest dense copy of The Economist magazine.  When supply/demand fundamentals are seemingly static, traders turn to macros like interest rate hike impacts on exchange rates, autocratic saber-rattling, and inflation-caused social displacement. All relevant, but tertiary and sometimes exaggerated in effect. Unless or until something breaks hard enough - like a demand crushing recession, or a resumed Black Sea blockade, a rail strike, or a new Plaza Accord on the dollar’s value, etc. Ther...