Wall Street reached new intraday records on Friday, Oct. 13, even as the White House's surprise cut of healthcare subsidies rocked stocks in the sector.

The Dow Jones Industrial Average was up 0.28%, the S&P 500 added 0.24%, and the Nasdaq increased 0.38%. Both the S&P 500 and Nasdag hit fresh intraday records.

Health insurance stocks such as UnitedHealth Group Inc. (UNH) - Get Report and Aetna Inc. (AET) slumped after President Donald Trump made his biggest move yet to dismantle the Affordable Care Act. The Department of Health and Human Services moved late Thursday, Oct. 12, to cut off subsidies to health insurers under the Obama-era Affordable Care Act.

"We will discontinue these payments immediately," said acting HHS Secretary Eric Hargan and Medicare administrator Seema Verma.

The White House said in a separate statement that the government cannot legally continue to pay the so-called cost-sharing subsidies because they lack a formal authorization by Congress. Halting the payments is likely to trigger a spike in premiums for next year, unless Trump reverses course or Congress authorizes the money. The next payments are due around Oct. 20.

UnitedHealth, Aetna, Cigna Corp. (CI) - Get Report , and Humana Inc. (HUM) - Get Report all declined by more than 1%. Anthem Inc. (ANTM) - Get Report tumbled 3%. The Health Care Select Sector SPDR ETF (XLV) - Get Report decreased 0.4%.

The third-quarter earnings season powered on with Bank of America Corp. (BAC) - Get Report and Wells Fargo & Co. (WFC) - Get Report reporting their quarterly performances.

Bank of America posted higher quarterly profit than analysts estimated, driving shares 1.4% higher. Increasing interest rates fueled returns on lending enough to overcome sliding bond-trading revenue. Earnings of 48 cents a share rose 7 cents from a year earlier and beat estimates by 2 cents. Net income increased 13% to $5.6 billion.

Revenue from trading bonds, currencies and interest-rate swaps fell 19% to $2.15 billion at Bank of America. JPMorgan Chase & Co. (JPM) - Get Report and Citigroup Inc. (C) - Get Report both saw a drop in trading revenue over their third quarter. The two reported earnings on Thursday, unofficially kicking off the third-quarter earnings season.

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Wells Fargo fell 3.5% after reporting a drop in earnings over its recent quarter, a result of a one-time charge tied to mortgage investigations. The bank earned 84 cents a share, down from $1.03 a year earlier. Analysts anticipated earnings of $1.02 a share. The one-time charge amounted to 20 cents a share in litigation costs. Revenue declined 2% to $21.9 billion, also missing estimates.

"Over the past year we have made fundamental changes to transform Wells Fargo as part of our effort to rebuild trust and build a better bank," CEO Tim Sloan said in a statement. The bank has struggled to right itself after a string of consumer sales scandals over the past 12 months.

Just 6% of S&P 500 companies have reported earnings so far, the majority of which have bested earnings and sales estimates. Analysts anticipate blended earnings growth of 4.4% in the third quarter, or 2.3% excluding energy, according to Thomson Reuters estimates. Revenue is expected to rise by 4.4%.

Consumer prices rose in September, though the core rate of inflation remained stubbornly below the Federal Reserve's 2% target. The consumer price index increased 0.5% last month, according to the Bureau of Labor Statistics, 10 basis points below estimates. Year over year, consumer prices rose to 2.2% growth from 1.9%. However, excluding food and energy, core prices increased 0.1% and held flat at 1.7% on a year-over-year basis.

Inflation trends remain a conundrum to Federal Reserve members. According to September meeting minutes, some members grow concerned low inflation readings could "prove more persistent" than transitory. The Fed has still signaled that it expects to hike rates again by year's end.

"With financial conditions still very accommodative, the strength of growth will be enough to prompt a rate hike unless the inflation picture deteriorates further -- something that was not in evidence in today's data, despite the miss relative to consensus," said Eric Winograd, U.S. economist at AB (AllianceBernstein).

Consumer spending made a comeback in September. Retail sales increased 1.6% in September, according to the Census Bureau, reversing a 0.1% dip a month earlier. Analysts had expected a slightly faster pace of 1.7%. Excluding autos, sales increased 1%, faster than an anticipated increase of 0.8% and five times the pace of growth in August.

"Retail sales ended the third quarter with a bang," Eugenio J. Alemán, senior economist at Wells Fargo, wrote in a note. "This will give a boost to personal consumption expenditures, which started the third quarter on a weak note."

Consumer sentiment improved in early October, hitting its highest level since the beginning of 2004, according to the latest reading from the University of Michigan. The index of consumer sentiment increased to a reading of 101.1 in October, up from 95.1 in September. That marks a nearly 16% year-over-year increase. Both the view on current economic conditions and expectations for future growth rose this month. A final reading on sentiment will be released on Oct. 27.

Updated from 10:17 a.m. ET, Oct. 13.

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