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By Liz Moyer
Investing.com — U.S. stocks rose early Friday, with the Dow jumping on better-than-expected inflation data while the Nasdaq was weighed by disappointing earnings from Amazon.
At 9:47 ET (13:47 GMT), the rose 295 points or 0.9%, while the was up 0.5%, and the was up 0.7%.
The Commerce Department’s inflation gauge, known as the , rose 5.1% in September, not including food and energy prices, against an expected 5.2% gain over the same month last year. For the , core PCE rose 0.5%.
That comes hand in hand with data on personal income and spending that showed consumers continued to spend at a rate that outpaced the rise in prices.
rose 0.6% for the month, faster than the price of the average shopping basket. The price index for rose 0.3%. rose 0.4% in the month.
The PCE reading could ease investor fears that the will continue on its aggressive interest rate hike path. Many see the possibility that the Fed, which is expected to raise rates another 0.75 percentage point next week, could start to ease off that pace when it next meets in December.
Tech stocks were initially weighed down by Amazon’s (NASDAQ:) gloomy forecast for holiday quarter revenue, which it expects will take a hit from foreign exchange effects. Shares of Amazon fell 10.8% in early trading and hit a 52-week low.
Fellow tech giant Apple (NASDAQ:) had stronger , beating expectations, but iPhone sales were slightly weaker than analysts were expecting. Shares of Apple rose 4%.
Oil fell. was down 1% to $88.11 a barrel, while crude was down 1% to $94.10 a barrel. fell 0.8% to $1651.
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