Shares of industrial and transportation companies ticked up amid hopes that inflation was leveling off.
The Consumer Price Index rose 2.7% in December, and core prices-excluding the volatile food and energy categories-rose less than economists had anticipated.
Aerospace giant Boeing delivered 63 airplanes in December, bringing the airplane manufacturer's 2025 total to 600 jets and giving it the busiest shipping year since 2018.
L3Harris Technologies plans to spin off its missile unit as a new publicly traded company backed by a $1 billion investment from the Pentagon.
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