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Wall Street is silent Monday with traders off for Martin Luther King Jr. Day.
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World-wide shares and U.S. stock-index futures drifted on Monday.
Traders remain optimistic that the economic climate is slowing and inflation is cooling adequate to prompt the Federal Reserve to relieve back from aggressive financial policy.
Company earnings in the days and weeks ahead characterize a further catalyst as buyers keep on being concerned about the prospect of recession, with the aim staying on how corporations are faring and how they check out the months to arrive.