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Here's your closing bell brief for Tuesday, January 13th. I'm Catherine Sullivan for the Wall Street Journal.

U.S. stocks finished lower today. The Dow fell 0.8%. It lagged behind other major indexes, with the S&P 500 down 2 tenths of a percent, and the NASDAQ down one-tenth of a percent.

Investors focused on new inflation data for December,

headline prices rose 2.7 percent from a year ago,

and core inflation was softer than analysts' forecast.

Treasury yields also slipped following the report.

Oil prices finished 2.8% higher. Among individual companies,

J.P. Morgan Chase shares dropped 4%. The bank reported a 7% drop in quarterly profit, which also weighed on the Dow. Revenue for the period also missed forecasts. The firm took a $2.2 billion

charge for potential future losses related to the

purchase of Apple's credit card program. Delta Airlines stock fell over 2% today. The government

shutdown cut $200 million from its pre-tax quarterly profit and caused its adjusted revenue to

miss expectations. The company also announced a new order for

Boeing Jets. And Revity shares jumped 6% after the Health Sciences company increased its annual

earnings guidance. Heads up, an artificial intelligence tool helped us make this episode

by creating summaries that were based on WSJ reporting and then reviewed and adapted by an editor.

We'll have a lot more coverage of the day's news on the WSJ's What's News podcast.

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