US stocks perked up at Tuesday's market open, with the Nasdaq Composite (^IXIC) already seeing an upside of over 0.8%. Federal Reserve officials are convening in Washington, D.C., as part of their two-day FOMC meeting before announcing a new interest rate decision tomorrow, Wednesday, Sept. 18.

Jared Blikre joins Brad Smith in examining the morning market moves while also eyeing the US dollar index (DX-Y.NYB) as well as gold (GC=F) and silver (SI=F) prices in the commodities space.

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This post was written by Luke Carberry Mogan.