wall street stocks won solid gains monday in an optimistic round of trading ahead of key inflation data that will influence us monetary policy market watchers awaiting tuesdays consumer price index report have penciled in further moderation which would ease pressure on the federal reserve to prolong interest rate hikes for significantly longer the yield on the 10year us treasury dipped in a sign traders expect the feds ratehiking streak to end relatively soon it looks as if the market is expecting a little bit of good news on inflation said peter cardillo of spartan capital securities the dow jones industrial average finished up 11 percent at 3424593 the broadbased sp 500 also climbed 11 percent to 413729 while the techrich nasdaq composite index jumped 15 percent to 1189179 despite mondays gains some analysts expressed caution ahead of tuesdays data stocks were buffeted much of last week by worries that the fed will enact many more interest rate hikes pricing pressures are expected to rise last month and we should not be surprised if the valentines day inflation report is very hot as used car prices and energy costs clearly rebounded last month said oandas edward moya risky assets could struggle if the bond market sees more traders place bets for much more fed tightening he added other economic releases this week include a report on retail sales on wednesday and housing starts on thursday both for january