this friday morning. let's get a check on global markets. you can see asia markets closed lower. europe has opened very slightly lower. but on wall street, stock index futures are leaning up a little bit. if was a down day, mostly down day for stocks on thursday. the dow flat after an 1100 point rally. remember earlier this week, a big start to the week. the nasdaq and s&p 500 snapped a three-day winning streak there. stocks pausing from that powerful early week rally. today the focus shifts back to inflation. the consumer price index for november is due in just a few hours. prices rose 6.2% in october compared to the prior year. thus the biggest annual increase in 30 years. so what do economists expected to? they're forecasting annual inflation at 6.8% in november. that would be the biggest yearly increase since may of 1982. it's numbers like these that have the fed now on inflation watch, poised to roll back covid stimulus even faster than