U.S. stocks closed another record-setting week with a muted performance Friday, as hope built on Wall Street that the U.S. economy can manage the rare feat of suppressing high inflation without causing a recession.

U.S. stock indexes are drifting around their records as hopes hold that the economy can pull off the feat of getting painfully high inflation under control without a recession

U.S. stocks closed another record-setting week with a muted performance Sept. 27, as hope built on Wall Street that the U.S. economy can manage the rare feat