{"id":211397,"date":"2022-02-11T10:37:00","date_gmt":"2022-02-11T10:37:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/omni48.com\/news\/u-s-stocks-attempt-to-nudge-higher-as-investors-weigh-fed-response-to-persistent-inflation"},"modified":"2022-02-11T10:37:00","modified_gmt":"2022-02-11T10:37:00","slug":"u-s-stocks-attempt-to-nudge-higher-as-investors-weigh-fed-response-to-persistent-inflation","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/omni48.com\/news\/u-s-stocks-attempt-to-nudge-higher-as-investors-weigh-fed-response-to-persistent-inflation","title":{"rendered":"U.S. stocks attempt to nudge higher as investors weigh Fed response to persistent inflation"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Consumers wrestle with rising prices. APU.S. stock indexes were mostly higher Friday as investors weighed a sharp drop in consumer sentiment and a pickup in near-term inflation expectations as they continued to assess data released a day earlier showing consumer prices rose at the fastest pace in 40 years.What&#8217;s happeningThe Dow Jones Industrial Average DJIA, +0.20%was up 140 points, or 0.4%, at 34,380. The S&amp;P 500 SPX, -0.12%rose 5 points, or 0.1%, to 4,509. The Nasdaq Composite COMP, -0.49%ticked down 10 points, or 0.1%, to 14,175. On Thursday, the Dow Jones Industrial Average DJIA, +0.20%fell 526 points, or 1.5%, while the S&amp;P 500 dropped 1.8% and the Nasdaq Composite COMP, -0.49%dropped 2.1%. All three major indexes remain on track for weekly gains.What&#8217;s driving marketsStocks opened with a modest push to the upside, but saw early gains trimmed after the University of Michigan&#8217;s preliminary February gauge of consumer sentiment fell to 61.7, from January&#8217;s level of 67.2, the lowest reading since<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>U.S. stock indexes were mostly higher Friday as investors weighed a sharp drop in consumer sentiment and a pickup in near-term inflation expectations as they continued to assess data released<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1,24],"tags":[33,27,29,28,227],"class_list":["post-211397","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news","category-stocks","tag-business","tag-economy","tag-markets","tag-stocks","tag-u-s-stocks"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/omni48.com\/api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/211397","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/omni48.com\/api\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/omni48.com\/api\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/omni48.com\/api\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=211397"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/omni48.com\/api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/211397\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/omni48.com\/api\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=211397"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/omni48.com\/api\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=211397"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/omni48.com\/api\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=211397"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}