Any announcement or "possible announcement" causes many people to be influenced more by the rumor than by what has actually happened.

You nailed it @josevas217

It looks like they are testing out how far can they influence the markets without really doing much.

although those who have economic power think very differently from us.

haahaha tell me about it. They surely do not see world the way regular Joe does.

However, I don't think generating chaos is anyones agenda. It's more like FED knows that they need to do something to combat inflation, but they do not want to do it while so much attention is directed towards them.

Yours, Piotr