Shares of industrial and transportation companies rose as hopes for moderated interest rates offset weak factory data.
Federal Reserve Chairman Jerome Powell said inflation was moving in the right direction.
The Institute for Supply Management’s manufacturing survey was unchanged at 46.7% last month, completing the first 12-month span in contractionary territory — below 50% — since the Great Recession of 2008-2009.
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