Most stocks fell on Wall Street Thursday after a disappointing report said inflation was worse last month at the U.S. wholesale level than economists expected. But gains for Amazon and some other influential Big Tech companies helped mask the losses.

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Earlier this week, falling bond yields and growing expectations for aggressive Federal Reserve interest-rate cuts in the months ahead helped spark a rotation away from what had been working in the U.S.

The S&P 500 dipped 0.3% after flirting with its all-time high, which was set two weeks ago, earlier in the day. The Dow Jones Industrial Average dropped 200 points, or 0.5%, while the Nasdaq composite shaved 0.3% off its own record.

And while Deere reported higher-than-expected earnings of $4.75 per share and revenue of $10.4 billion, management now expects net income for the full fiscal year to be $5 billion at the midpoint – down from a previous forecast of $5.15 billion.

The rally in small-cap stocks fizzled, with investors buying shares of large tech and financial companies.

The stock market's on pace to snap a three-day winning streak after an inflation report nudged some investors to pare back rate cut hopes.