Tuesday, February 20th, 2024We begin a new holiday-shortened trading week today with pre-market futures slightly down overall. Traders and investors continue to come to grips with what these higher-than-expected CPI and PPI numbers from last week mean, if they in fact mean anything (they could be a temporary seasonal wrinkle to be ironed out over time). The Dow, S&P 500 and Nasdaq are all trading -0.3% or thereabout at this hour. The last week of trading has presented similar challenges, though the S&P rema ...