Classic dissembling in the ancillary markets it appears, to try and make the dollar and equities look better by comparison.
It will work until it does not, then geysers here, and a deluge in financial instruments.
"And we headed out of the hotel, went to the airport, got on the plane and, about halfway through the flight, I found myself alone in the President’s cabin with him. I said, 'Mr. President, you don't have a cold. There’s something going on.' He said, 'You bet there is something else going on.' And he said, 'When you find out, grab your balls and run.' Pierre Salinger, On the Cuban Missile Crisis, 1995