U.S. stock indexes opened higher on Friday, putting them on track to finish a rough week with gains despite data showing consumer prices accelerated in August. The Dow Jones Industrial Average rose 140.4 points, or 0.27%, to 52,204.46. The S&P 500 gained 45.1 points, or 0.59%, to 7,636.75, while the Nasdaq Composite advanced 207.7 points, or 0.80%, to 26,289.414. The updated figures replace earlier opening readings in the topic record of 0.96% for the Dow, 0.85% for the S&P 500 and 0.81% for the Nasdaq. The earlier record also reported a 1.64% decline in the VIX and broad gains among AI-related shares, including Oracle, Dell, CoreWeave, Teradyne and Arista Networks. It said MSX had listed hundreds of real-world-asset tokens linked to major U.S. stocks and exchange-traded funds, including Nvidia, GOOGL, Microsoft, Amazon, Meta, TSM and AMD.