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Here are five key things investors need to know to start the trading day:

The S&P 500

logged its third straight losing day yesterday as investors weighed jobs numbers for the last two months. The delayed data painted a familiar economic picture — low hiring, low firing — and didn’t move the needle when it came to the odds of a January interest rate cut.

Here’s what to know: