U.S. stocks closed another record-setting week with a muted performance Friday, as hope built on Wall Street that the U.S. economy can manage the rare feat of suppressing high inflation without causing a recession.

Two high-flying artificial intelligence (AI) stocks will take center stage in the upcoming week with respective 10-for-1 forward splits that follow in the footsteps of Nvidia and Broadcom.

Premarket trading on Wall Street was relatively listless Friday ahead of the government's latest inflation report.

U.S. stock indexes are drifting around their records Friday as hopes hold that the economy can pull off the rare feat of getting painfully high inflation under control without a recession. The S&P 500 was mostly unchanged in afternoon trading a day after setting an all-time high for the 42nd time this year.

U.S. stock indexes are drifting around their records as hopes hold that the economy can pull off the rare feat of getting painfully high inflation under control without a recession

U.S. stocks rose to another all-time high, but a slide in oil prices kept the gains in check by weighing down energy companies. The S&P 500 rose 0.4% Thursday, setting

Investors will be laser focused on the jobs market next week, with the ADP employment report on Wednesday and the September jobs report on Friday.