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Stock investors may be in for an unsettling start to the week ahead if doubts about the artificial-intelligence trade keep colliding with concerns around the upcoming release of backlogged economic data, which could point to a weak jobs market and stubborn inflation.
U.S. stocks finished Friday’s session mostly lower, which left the three major stock indexes mixed for the week. On Thursday, the Dow Jones Industrial Average
DJIA, S&P 500 SPX and Nasdaq Composite COMP, as well as the Russell 2000 small-cap index RUT, posted their worst performances in over a month despite the federal government’s reopening following its longest shutdown on record.


