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Happy Monday. My alma mater is in tonight’s March Madness championship game. While I’m not a big sports person, I have too many friends whose brackets depend on this game to not mention the Wolverines.

S&P 500 futures are higher this morning after a winning week.

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