The Dow was up 0.5%, while the S&P 500 rose 0.6% and the Nasdaq Composite rallied 0.9%. Still, all three major U.S. stock indexes remained down modestly for the week, with the S&P 500 on track for a slight 0.1% weekly decline, FactSet data show, at last check.

U.S. stocks closed another record-setting week with a muted performance Friday, as hope built on Wall Street that the U.S. economy can manage the rare feat of suppressing high inflation without causing a recession.

U.S. stock indexes are drifting around their records as hopes hold that the economy can pull off the rare feat of getting painfully high inflation under control without a recession. The S&P 500 was up 0.

Breakeven rates are a measure of what market participants expect average inflation to be over the next 5 or 10 years. As of Wednesday, the most recent day in which data is available from the St. Louis Fed, 5- and 10-year breakeven rates were respectively at 2.1% and 2.21%.

U.S. stocks closed another record-setting week with a muted performance Sept. 27, as hope built on Wall Street that the U.S. economy can manage the rare feat

U.S. stock indexes are drifting around their records as hopes hold that the economy can pull off the feat of getting painfully high inflation under control without a recession. The

Data that show dropping inflation and sustained economic growth kept investors in a positive state of mind after last week’s interest rate cut.