The US markets ended higher with notable gains on Friday taking cues from encouraging earnings updates from top tech firms. Intel climbed more than 6.5 percent, continuing to benefit from upbeat second-quarter earnings. Meta Platforms gained about 4.5 percent, riding on strong quarterly earnings. Microsoft surged 2.3 percent, Apple advanced 1.35 percent, and Verizon gained 1.5 percent. Some optimism also came in with data showing a slowdown in the annual rate of growth in consumer prices in the month of June. Easing worries about interest rates following the Federal Reserve hinting at a pause in hikes as early as September also aided the sentiments in markets.
Data from the Commerce Department showed personal income rose by 0.3 percent in June after climbing by an upwardly revised 0.5 percent in May. Street had expected personal income to increase by 0.5 percent compared to the 0.4 percent advance originally reported for the previous month. Meanwhile, personal spending climbed by 0.5 percent in June after inching up by an upwardly revised 0.2 percent in May. Street had expected personal spending to rise by 0.4 percent compared to the 0.1 percent uptick originally reported for the previous month. The data showed the annual rate of growth by consumer prices slowed to 3.0 percent in June from 3.8 percent in May. Street had expected the pace of growth to slow to 3.1 percent. The annual rate of growth by core consumer prices, which exclude food and energy prices, also slowed to 4.1 percent from 4.6 percent.
Dow Jones Industrial Average rose 176.57 points or 0.5 percent to 35,459.29, Nasdaq added 266.55 points or 1.9 percent to 14,316.66 and S&P 500 was up by 44.82 points or 0.99 percent to 4,582.23.
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