The S&P 500 rose on Thursday as oil prices declined and traders digested more inflation data as well as a slew of fresh earnings reports.
The broad market index was up 0.6%, while the Nasdaq Composite gained 0.8%, boosted by gains in Meta Platforms, Microsoft and Netflix. The Dow Jones Industrial Average added 132 points, or 0.3%.
Cisco Systems was a key laggard of the day, falling about 8% after the company’s latest quarterly results failed to impress investors. Cerebras and Coherent also moved lower in premarket trading after earnings updates overnight, with the former plummeting 15% and the latter dropping 6%.
Brent crude futures shed 2% to trade at $87.04 per barrel, while West Texas Intermediate futures slid 2% to $81.32 per barrel. The moves come as traders weighed falling oil demand while the U.S.-Iran war continues.
Wall Street got another look at U.S. inflation on Thursday, with the July reading of the U.S. producer price index — which gauges what wholesalers pay for raw goods and materials — coming in unchanged. Economists polled by Dow Jones had called for an increase of 0.2% on the month. Excluding volatile food and energy prices, core PPI rose 0.2%, just below the gain of 0.3% economists expected.
The lighter-than-expected PPI report comes a day after an in-line reading on the consumer price index.
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