U.S. financial markets are limping into a crucial period, with analysts warning about the potential for key economic releases to deliver a further blow to investors’ early-year optimism.
Stocks and bonds have slipped recently ahead of reports on nonfarm employment on Friday and the consumer-price index on Tuesday. Investors are eagerly, and nervously, looking forward to those reports because of a string of data last month that suggested that the economy was much stronger, and inflation much higher, than most had previously thought.
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