Soft CPI data powers Wall Street to a record high as S&P 500 hits 6,800 for the first time

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Wall Street on Friday soared after market participants, starved of economic data during the ongoing U.S. government shutdown, received a reprieve in the form of a cooler-than-expected consumer inflation report.

All three major averages scaled new intraday all-time peaks, with the