The stock market's record-setting rally faces a midweek double whammy as a pivotal Federal Reserve's interest-rate decision collides with a flood of megacap tech earnings.
U.S. stocks jumped to all-time highs on Friday after September's consumer-price index came in below expectations, helping to support the case for Federal Reserve interest-rate cuts next week and in December. Yet there are reasons to be cautious about where inflation may be headed beyond the next handful of months.