US stocks surged higher Wednesday after an encouraging inflation report and blockbuster profits for some of America’s biggest banks.

Survey finds tariffs, tax cuts and immigration policy could weigh on price outlook for next two years.

Netflix shot up 14.6% after it reported adding nearly 19 million subscribers during the holiday-season quarter and it topped sales and profit targets. The video streaming service’s expansion into live programming appears to be paying off as it wrapped up its best year ever with more than $40 billion in revenue.

World stocks are mixed follow Wall Street’s mostly positive performance ahead of key U.S. inflation data that could influence the pace of the Federal Reserve’s rate cuts.

Wall Street’s main indexes rose on Tuesday, with the blue-chip Dow at a more than one-month high, as investors assessed President Donald Trump’s executive orders after taking office and awaited his first move on trade policy. In morning trading, the Dow Jones Industrial Average rose 423 points, or 1%, to 43,911.

U.S. stocks rose after more companies said they made bigger profits at the end of last year than analysts expected and as Treasury yields eased.

SLB helped lead the market after the provider of services to oilfields delivered bigger profit and revenue for the end of 2024 than analysts expected. It jumped 6.1% after it also raised its dividend by 3.6% and said it’s returning $2.3 billion to its investors by buying back its own stock.

Wall Street pointed modestly higher ahead of this week’s latest U.S. inflation reports and the unofficial start of earnings season Wall Street pointed modestly higher early Tuesday ahead of new ...

U.S. stocks are ticking higher following an encouraging update on inflation. The S&P 500 rose 0.4% in early trading Tuesday. The Dow Jones Industrial Average was up 163 points, and the Nasdaq composite was 0.

Here are some key corporate results, economic data releases and other events to watch for this week: Today PPI report: A December readout for the produc

The S&P 500 was 1.5% higher in early trading. The Dow Jones Industrial Average was up 652 points, or 1.5%, as of 9:35 a.m. Eastern time, and the Nasdaq composite was 1.7% higher.

Wall Street has been lurching down and up for weeks ... but it could also give inflation more fuel. Traders were ebullient last year about the possibility of a string of cuts to rates, when ...