{"id":17411,"date":"2025-03-12T13:46:34","date_gmt":"2025-03-12T13:46:34","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/dogewisperer.com\/?p=17411"},"modified":"2025-03-12T13:46:34","modified_gmt":"2025-03-12T13:46:34","slug":"wall-street-rockets-as-february-inflation-cools-more-than-expected","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dogewisperer.com\/?p=17411","title":{"rendered":"Wall Street Rockets As February Inflation Cools More Than Expected"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n<p>Stocks surged Wednesday morning, with major indices poised to snap a two-day losing streak, as cooler-than-expected inflation reinforced expectations for Federal Reserve <a href=\"https:\/\/www.benzinga.com\/economics\/macro-economic-events\/25\/03\/44274165\/inflation-cools-more-than-expected-in-february-strengthens-the-case-for-fed-rate-cuts\">rate cuts in 2025<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Futures on major U.S. indices rebounded sharply, with the S&amp;P 500 climbing 1.1% by 9:00 a.m. ET, the Nasdaq 100 jumping 1.6%, and the Dow Jones Industrial Average rising 0.8%. <\/p>\n<p>Small caps, as tracked by the <strong>iShares Russell 2000 ETF<\/strong> (NYSE:<a class=\"ticker\" href=\"https:\/\/www.benzinga.com\/stock\/IWM#NYSE\">IWM<\/a>), were up 1.2%. <\/p>\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Rate Cut Bets Gain Traction<\/h2>\n<p>The latest Consumer Price Index report showed inflation cooling more than anticipated in February. <\/p>\n<p>Headline CPI eased to 2.8% year-over-year, coming in below the 2.9% forecast, while core CPI, which strips out food and energy prices, slowed to &#8230;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.benzinga.com\/economics\/macro-economic-events\/25\/03\/44275575\/wall-street-rockets-as-february-inflation-cools-more-than-expected\" alt=\"Wall\" street rockets as february inflation cools more than expected>Full story available on Benzinga.com<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Stocks surged Wednesday morning, with major indices poised to snap a two-day losing streak, as cooler-than-expected inflation reinforced expectations for Federal Reserve rate cuts in 2025. Futures on major U.S. indices rebounded sharply, with the S&amp;P 500 climbing 1.1% by 9:00 a.m. ET, the Nasdaq 100 jumping 1.6%, and the Dow Jones Industrial Average rising [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"iawp_total_views":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[3,4,5],"class_list":["post-17411","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news","tag-crypto","tag-doge","tag-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dogewisperer.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17411","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/dogewisperer.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/dogewisperer.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dogewisperer.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dogewisperer.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=17411"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/dogewisperer.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17411\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dogewisperer.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=17411"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dogewisperer.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=17411"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dogewisperer.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=17411"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}