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Updated Dec 22, 2023, 4:45 am EST / Original Dec 22, 2023, 4:13 am EST

Stock futures traded lower Friday as investors awaited the release of the Federal Reserve’s preferred measure of inflation, the personal consumption expenditures price index.

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