 I'm Elizabeth MacDonald, and this is the Fox Business Report. Stocks ending lower even as a cooling inflation reading boosted rate cut hopes. Consumer prices were flat from April to May, the mildest performance in more than four years. Measured from a year earlier, prices rose 2.6% last month, slightly less than in April. Although inflation has not hit the Fed's desired 2% target, if the readings continue to pull back, it could lead to the central bank slashing interest rates in the fall.