Stocks jumped in Thursday's session after positive retail sales data and an inflation reading that was better than expected.

<div class="block">Stocks jumped in Thursday&#39;s session after positive retail sales data and an inflation reading that was better than expected.</div>

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Stocks Jump After Retail Sales, Better-Than-Expected Inflation Reading

This morning. Welcome back to me to know everyone. I'm Christian Scher alongside Hannah do the trading day after the races here at the New York Stock Exchange lab for the opening bell. Maybe you get some of your blood work done there and arm which is expected to launch its IPO its IPO debuting today over there at the NASDAQ packed floor. It looks like in Times square. So we'll be talking about that more throughout the day on Cheddar news. Let's take a look at how the markets opened. Fractional gains across the board. Volatility ticking lower. This is actually quite a rosy scenario, volatility at a level of just 13 and anything below 20 is good. So we're actually trending quite well, but we do see fractional gains all the major indexes. In fact, up about half a percent. As I see on the screen here, as August retail sales came in better than expected, the consumer is still holding up, still spending even amid high gas prices. And as we did see an inflation rate that wasn't as bad as feared. So those are factors lifting the market today