Zoom out and look at the chart. Look at the price before the merge and after the merge. Before the merge, people kept on buying the coin with the hope of making some quick profit. This made the price go up a lot within short period of time. As soon as the merge took place, those who bought early, started to sell their ETH to take all the profits. Hence the price of ETH started to fall and a correction took place.
It's because of the trend.
Bitcoin is still the reason why it hasn't move that much even after the merge and from being pow to pos. And as the CPI report has came out, there's still another reason why it wouldn't go up.
Well, it's going to be a matter of time again until we see it move. This verifies that we're in a bear market and it could stay in there for quite a while.
It did move a lot after the merge. But in the opposite direction.
And because btc is still in the seemingly bearish position, eth can't continuously increase its price also.
Remember, even eth market is also following the trend of btc up until now.
So the eth's price won't skyrocket its price as most holders are expecting after the merge.
Maybe, once btc is out of the 20k level and starts going up, ETH should follow thru the trend.
But in my opinion, eth holders should not panic or worry, because eth is one of the valuable projects in this market.
They may not see the increase today, but definitely, it won't disappear and it is only keeping up with the btc market performance.