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Here are five key things investors need to know to start the trading day:
President Donald Trump, with approval ratings sagging, touted his economic and other policies in a White House address, taking jabs at his predecessor, former President Joe Biden. “I inherited a mess,” Trump said, referring to when he returned to the White House last January. “And I am fixing it.”
Here’s what to know:
The November consumer price index report, the first since the record government shutdown ended last month, is due out at 8:30 a.m. ET.
