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The S&P 500 flirts with a record as U.S. stock-market investors return from a three-day weekend, awaiting minutes from the Federal Reserve's January meeting and data due later this week.

US stocks open little changed but near record highs. Investors wait for more tariff talk from Trump and interest rate clues from Fed minutes out Wed.

U.S. equity futures edged modestly lower Wednesday, while Treasury yields and the dollar moved higher, as investors paused a record-setting rally on Wall Street amid renewed tariff and inflation concerns.

The S&P 500 was adding 0.3% to the all-time high it set the day before. The Dow Jones Industrial Average was virtually unchanged, with an hour of trading remaining, and the Nasdaq

Major U.S. averages slipped Tuesday afternoon, as investors kicked off the holiday-shortened trading week with attention on geopolitics, and an eye on the market circling record highs. The benchmark S&P 500 (SP500) shed -0.