
The 2022 stock market weakness continued this week, with major indexes trading lower on another round of discouraging inflation data.
What Happened: On Friday morning, the SPDR S&P 500 ETF Trust (NYSE:SPY) dropped 2.6% after the Labor Department reported the consumer price index rose 8.6% in May, the highest U.S. inflation reading since 1981. Economists were expecting just 8.3% CPI growth in May, and the surprise uptick undermined investor hopes that CPI inflation had peaked at 8.5% in March.