S&P 500 Hits Record as Soft CPI Boosts Rate-Cut Hopes; Intel Earnings Surge
US stocks climbed to an all-time high on Friday, as traders cheered slower-than-anticipated September consumer price data that boosts optimism for an expected Federal Reserve interest-rate cut next week. The S&P 500 Index rose 0.8% at 9:55 a.m. in New York, with nine of 11 sectors in the green, led by technology. The Nasdaq 100…