Stock market today: Dow, S&P 500, Nasdaq futures tip higher as CPI inflation picks up, jobless claims surge

US stock futures nudged higher on Thursday as the latest reading on consumer inflation showed consumer prices ticked up in August, helping set expectations for the pace of interest rate cuts this year. Futures on the Dow Jones Industrial Average (YM=F), the S&P 500 (ES=F), and the tech-heavy Nasdaq 100 (NQ=F) all gained around 0.2%, on the heels of a muted but record-setting session on Wednesday. Thursday's Consumer Price Index (CPI) report for August exhibited some signs that President Trump's tariffs ...