NEW YORK—The toughest week for Wall Street in nearly two months came to a quiet end on Friday, as stock indexes drifted to a mixed finish.
The S&P 500 rose 0.2 percent, but it still ended the week with a drop of 1.1 percent, which was its worst since December. The Dow Jones Industrial Average gained 169 points, or 0.5 percent, while the Nasdaq composite fell 0.6 percent.
Stocks have been struggling since rallying in January on hopes that the economy could avoid a severe recession and that cooling inflation could get the Federal Reserve to take it easier on interest rates. Worries have worsened recently that a still-strong jobs market could push upward on inflation and keep rates at a higher-for-longer level, much as the Fed has been warning….