Major indexes were slightly lower Thursday morning after a couple of lackluster days for the U.S. stock market that followed a big post-election rally, as investors await comments this afternoon from Federal Reserve Chair Jerome Powell.

The Dow Jones rose Thursday morning after key inflation data and ahead of Fed Chair Powell's speech. Disney soared on earnings.

Retail sales, plus another inflation report, are this week's main remaining economic data releases. Plus, Federal Reserve Chair Jerome Powell is set to speak on the economic outlook, and there are a few earnings still on the slate.

The S&P 500 and the Dow edged higher on Wednesday after in-line consumer price inflation data kept the U.S. Federal Reserve on track to deliver another interest rate cut in December.The consumer price index rose 0.