Stocks rebound to close higher but Dow down for the week
Dow snaps five-week win streak
Workday falls after cutting revenue forecast
Ross Stores rises after Q1 results beat
Updated at 4:00 p.m. ET/2000 GMT
By Chuck Mikolajczak
NEW YORK, May 24 (Reuters) - U.S. stocks rebounded on Friday from sharp losses the day before on news of an improving consumer outlook on inflation, sending the Nasdaq to a fifth straight week of gains and record closing high.
The Commerce Department said new orders for key U.S.-manufactured capital goods rebounded more than expected in April while the University of Michigan reported that consumers' inflation expectations improved in late May after deteriorating early in the month.
"The data has come in a little better than people thought this morning. Durable goods was a pretty solid number. ... And then consumer sentiment, not great, but not bad, better than people expected," said Rob Haworth, senior investment strategist at U.S. Bank Wealth Management in Seattle.
"This is a bounce where people are like maybe things aren't as bad as we thought, maybe there's room for the Fed to cut rates and the economy's going to be OK, and we're not completely falling apart."
According to preliminary data, the S&P 500 .SPX gained 36.86 points, or 0.70%, to end at 5,304.70 points, while the Nasdaq Composite .IXIC gained 184.98 points, or 1.11%, to 16,921.02. The Dow Jones Industrial Average .DJI rose 6.19 points, or 0.02%, to 39,071.45.
Despite Friday's gains, the Dow .DJI snapped its five-week rally a day after registering its largest daily percentage decline in over a year.
Trading volumes were subdued ahead of the Memorial Day market holiday on Monday.
U.S. stocks dropped on Thursdayas economic data indicating rising price pressures tempered expectationsfor rate cuts this year from the Federal Reserve. This overshadowed Nvidia'sNVDA.O blowout quarterly results that helped justify investor expectations for growth in artificial intelligence related stocks.
Communication services .SPLRCLgained more than 1% as the day's best performing of the 11 major S&P sectors, while tech .SPLRCT and utilities .SPLRCU each gained around 1%.
Markets are pricing in a 49.4% chance for a rate cut at the Fed's September meeting, down from 54.8% a week ago, CME's FedWatch Tool showed.Goldman Sachs pushed back its call for a first easingto September from July.
Small-cap stocks, sensitive to interest rates, also rebounded, with the Russell 2000 .RUT rising after tumbling 1.6% on Thursday.
Workday WDAY.O plungedafter the human resources software provider cut its annual subscription revenue forecast.
Ross Stores ROST.O ralliedafter posting first-quarter results above estimates and raising its annual profit forecast.
With earnings season largely wrapped up, LSEG data through Friday morning showed that of the 480 companies in the S&P 500 that have reported earnings, 77.9% have topped analysts' expectations, just shy of the 79% beat rate over the past four quarters but above the 67% average since 1994.
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Reporting by Chuck Mikolajczak; Editing by Richard Chang
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