on the one hand you ve got cautious optimism building around those debt ceiling talks, but on the other hand yesterday we heard from a couple of fed officials which suggested we could be in for more rate hikes and higher rates for longer. so putting all together investors are trading cautiously this morning. in terms of the day ahead we ve got some data to look out for, the u.s. flash pmi, purchasing managers index a forward looking indicator and also new home sales for april due out, and richmond fed s manufacturing for may. we ll get a little more insight into the health of the economy with those data points. certainly we ll be watching for that later today. let s hit a couple other headlines here. tiktok has filed a lawsuit against the state of montana over a new law in that state intending to ban the app from being downloaded within its borders. there s some questions how they re really going to enforce this, but give us a sense what s the latest of the state of play here? yeah
consumer price index, and jobless claims numbers all due out. there is compelling information from police and a crucial witness that reveals new details about the brutal deaths of four university students. yesterday we saw furniture from the crime scene in moscow, idaho, being loaded into trucks and taken away. the father of one of those victims believes his daughter was being, quote, hunted by her killer. cnn s veronica miracle is on the scene for us as investigators try to work out exactly what happened inside that building. he was stalking them. he was hunting them. reporter: the father of kaylee goncalves, one of the four university of idaho students killed, believes his daughter and her friends were hunted after authorities laid out the case against bryan kohberger. it was just a person looking for an opportunity and it just happened to be in that house. and it s hard to take.
in fact. 223,000 jobs added in december. it capped a year in which a very tight labor market seemed impervious to historic interest rate increases by the federal reserve. the jobless rate matching a 50-year low of 3.5%. for the year, a remarkable 4.5 million jls obs were added in t year but wage growth, while strong, slowed and december s jobs gains were the slowest in two years, evidence, perhaps, that the fed s medicine is beginning to work. looking ahead, more inflation gut check numbers are out this week. consumer credit data. jobless claims numbers all due out. christine romans, thank you. compelling information from police and a crucial witness is revealing new details about the savage murder of four university students. yesterday we saw furniture from the crime scene in moscow, idaho, being loaded on to trucks and then taken away.