In the quiet before a pivotal Federal Reserve disclosure, the U.S. dollar drifted to multi-month lows on Wednesday, carried downward by softening economic data and the slow unwinding of rate-hike expectations that had long propped up the greenback's yield advantage. Treasury yields retreated alongside it, as markets paused to reckon with a labor market showing unexpected losses and inflation that had arrived milder than feared. The moment captures something enduring in financial life: the way certainty, once it begins to erode, can reshape the value of things almost before anyone notices.