 I'm Maria Bartiromo, and this is the Fox Business Report. Today starts a new trading week and quarter. Stocks ending lower Friday in the last trading session of the month, second quarter and first half of the year. That after the latest inflation report strengthened hopes for interest rate cuts in September as the Fed's preferred inflation gauge, the Personal Consumption Expenditures Price Index, showed a 2.6% rise in the 12 months prior to May, which was lower than the previous month.