Last week was huge. Three central banks (the institutions that set interest rates) decided in three days, and the U.S. Federal Reserve, or the Fed, raised its rate for the first time since 2023. The dollar jumped, not because of the hike itself, which everyone expected, but because of what the Fed said would come next. This week has no single event that big. Instead it has three quieter questions left open on Friday: how firm the Fed’s officials sound as they speak all week, what comes out of a trade meeting between President Trump and President Xi on Thursday, and whether oil keeps falling and taking the inflation scare down with it. The daily close, the price at the end of each trading day, is what will keep score again.