Chips push Wall St higher, oil’s slide softens Fed hit

Chip stocks boosted Wall Street late Thursday morning, with U.S. indexes moving up as oil prices fell and some inflation worries cooled despite a firmer tone from the Federal Reserve. The Dow Jones Industrial Average added 0.36% at 11:23 a.m. ET, while the S&P 500 was up 0.91%. The Nasdaq Composite climbed 1.25%.