The S&P 500 closed about 5,000 for the first time as market participants were encouraged by December's revised inflation reading, which came in lower than previously reported. The broader market index rose nearly 0.6% on the day, while the Dow Jones Industrial Average lost more than 50 points and the tech-heavy Nasdaq Composite added 1.3%.
Here's how the market settled to close out the week:
S&P 500 Index
Dow Jones Industrial Average
Nasdaq Composite Index
Moving Markets: The Labor Department on Friday said that inflation rose at a slower pace than previously reported in December, increase by 0.2% instead of the original print of 0.3%. Still, core CPI, which excludes food and energy prices, rose 0.3% in December, matching the government's original report. Moreover, November's CPI was revised higher to 0.2% from its initial 0.1% estimate.
While the changes to previous inflation reports were small, December's updated reading confirmed that inflation is continuing to ease, giving more evidence to market optimism that the Federal Reserve will start cutting interest rates later this year.
On the Earnings Front: Cloudflare
"By the end of 2024, we plan to have inference to GPUs deployed in nearly every city that makes up Cloudflare's global network and within milliseconds of nearly every device connected to the Internet worldwide," Prince added.
Pinterest
Take-Two Interactive
PepsiCo
In Single-Stock News: Pinterest announced a new ad deal with Google in effort to boost its ad revenue after its monthly active users rose 11% year-over-year to 498 million.
"This partnership will focus on monetizing several of our currently unmonetized international markets by enabling ads to be served on Pinterest via Google's Ad Manager," said Pinterest CEO Bill Ready during the company's earnings call. "We went live a couple of weeks ago, and this is starting to ramp up. Third-party ad demand is scaling as we anticipated."