Stock Market Today: Wall Street Ticks Higher Ahead of Updates on Inflation, Profits

A trader looks over his cell phone outside the New York Stock Exchange in the financial district of Manhattan in New York on Sept. 14, 2022. Mary Altaffer/AP Photo

NEW YORK—Stocks ticked higher on Wall Street Monday ahead of a week with updates on where inflation and corporate profits are heading.

The S&P 500 rose 10.58, or 0.2 percent, to 4,409.53, coming off just its second losing week in the last eight. The Dow Jones Industrial Average climbed 209.52, or 0.6 percent, to 33,944.40, and the Nasdaq composite added 24.77, or 0.2 percent, to 13,685.48..