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Stocks open higher, fueled by Alphabet, Microsoft results

The major indexes (^DJI,^GSPC, ^IXIC) opened higher on Friday morning thanks to strong results from Alphabet (GOOG, GOOGL) and Microsoft (MSFT).

Investors seemingly were able to shrug off the latest inflation print. The core Personal Consumption Expenditures price index rose 2.8% in March, slightly more than the 2.7% economists had been expecting. It rose 0.3% from February, which was in line with estimates.

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This post was written by Stephanie Mikulich.