Updated inflation figures indicating a continued slowdown in price growth in April did little to push the major stock indexes out of their sideways grinds Wednesday—with the broad S&P 500® Index edging higher and tech-focused Nasdaq touching a more-than eight month high, while the Dow Jones Industrial Average lagged—as the odds of a major change in the Federal Reserve's rate posture appear slim.

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