U.S. stocks eke out 4-day win streak as bond yields fall, CPI on deck

U.S. stocks eked out a fourth straight day of gains on Wednesday as investors combed through minutes of the Federal Reserve’s September policy meeting and awaited a key inflation update due Thursday. The Dow Jones Industrial Average DJIA, +0.19% advanced about 65 points, or 0.2%, ending near 33,804, after flipping between small gains and losses. The S&P 500 index SPX, +0.43% gained 0.4% and the Nasdaq Composite Index closed 0.7% higher.

Likely bolstering stocks was the continued pullback of long-term Treasury yields, with the benchmark 10-year TMUBMUSD10Y, 4.563% rate retreating by 5.8 basis points to 4.596%, the lowest yield in almost two weeks, according to Dow Jones Market Data. The Fed meeting minutes reinforced a message that the central bank will tread carefully with future interest-rate decisions given the uncertain economic outlook.

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