The Fed is continuing to add liquidity to the markets, and with light volumes it remains relatively easier to subsidize a soft lift to the market throughout the day.
Nice volatility for short term trading, but otherwise a treacherous market.
“Thus, it should be understood that when pro-US figures use the term, 'rules-based international order,' they are not referring to anything analogous to the rule of law. Quite the opposite, they are using Orwellian language to describe a system in which essentially no rules can be established and/or observed, given that the dominant state has the prerogative to violate and/or rewrite “rules” at its whim.” Aaron Good, American Exception