holding pattern
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The Federal Reserve is in a holding pattern.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 28, 2026
That’s the message retail investors are sending as fund flow data for September indicates a strong preference developing for exchange-traded funds focused on longer-duration Treasury bonds, while the equity market remains in a holding pattern.
From MarketWatch ● Oct. 1, 2026
New York City Mayor Zohran Mamdani, and his seemingly supernatural competence at both city management and marketing, has laid a blueprint for kitchen-table progressives looking to bust out of the Trump-era holding pattern.
From Salon ● Aug. 29, 2026
Fulham are now very much in a Premier League holding pattern.
From BBC ● May 25, 2026
The school week is like a holding pattern.
From "Ask the Passengers" by A.S. King
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