Inflation Data, Profit-Taking Drive Stocks to Weekly Losses

A potential government shutdown, earnings reports, and anticipation around inflation data made for a rocky start to the week, but all three major indexes still marked a third-straight record close on Monday. Nvidia's (NVDA) $100 billion investment in OpenAI pushed chips to the forefront, but it was not enough to stop stocks from snapping their win streaks.Profit-taking pushed the Dow Jones Industrial Average (DJI) to its first back-to-back daily drop in three weeks. Sentiment stayed grim despite cooler-than ...