Dollar Breaks But S&P 500 Can’t Overcome 200-Day Average After CPI, Bank Earnings Ahead

US inflation continued its slide back towards earth, but the market struggled to muster a clear ‘risk appetite’ response. Whether the markets are starting to fully discount a steady CPI retreat or the report was just undermined by its ‘in-line’ print, we have another spark to push the S&P 500 ahead: bank earnings…