all three major us stock indexes were higher in monday’s final hour of trading led by a 05 jump in the dow jones industrial average the dow was headed for its first gain in four trading sessions as traders awaited wednesday’s consumer price index for june economists polled by the wall street journal expect the annual headline cpi rate to ease to 31 and the narrower core reading to slip to 5 on a yearoveryear basis the sp 500 and nasdaq were each up 01 and also appeared to be on their way toward their first gain in four days