Dow jumps 100 points as Wall Street looks to break out of 3-week recession

US stocks rose on Friday after a choppy trading session as traders considered Federal Reserve Chairman Jerome Powell’s recent comments on inflation.

The Dow Jones Industrial Average rose 152 points, or 0.48%. The S&P 500 and Nasdaq Composite were up 0.83% and 1.27%, respectively.

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The Dow Jones Industrial Average jumped 193 points, or 0.61%, during the regular session on Thursday — closing higher after alternating between gains and losses throughout the day. The S&P 500 rose 0.66% and the Nasdaq Composite advanced 0.60%.

These gains put all three major averages on course for losses for three consecutive weeks. During Thursday, the Dow was up 1.45%. Meanwhile, the S&P 500 is up 2.09%, and the Nasdaq Composite is up 1.99%.

Stocks have been volatile recently as expectations for a rate hike rose by 0.75 percentage point this month on Wall Street, after the Federal Reserve chair said once again that he is “strongly committed” to lowering inflation.

“I think people are grossly underestimating what the Fed is going to do to fight inflation,” Richard Bernstein, CEO of Richard Bernstein Consulting, said Thursday on CNBC’s “Closing Bell: Overtime.”

“It’s incredibly ironic that investors are even thinking about the Fed pivot when the real fed funds rate remains at the same negative level as it has been historically. So the Fed hasn’t fought inflation aggressively yet. We don’t have a positive real money rate. It’s hard to say that we should turn very bullish anytime soon.”