Stock Market Today: Dow Sinks 715 Points on Inflation Unrest
Stocks opened lower Friday and losses accelerated as the session wore on. Sparking the sell-off was a concerning inflation update and another sharp slide in consumer sentiment.At the close, the Dow Jones Industrial Average was off 1.7% at 41,583, the S&P 500 was 2.0% lower at 5,580, and the Nasdaq Composite was down 2.7% to 17,322. All three indexes closed lower on a weekly basis too.Weighing on sentiment at the very start of the session was this morning's release of the Personal Consumption Expenditures Price Index (PCE) – the Federal...



