NEW YORK — (AP) — Wall Street closed its latest winning month and quarter with more records on Monday. The drift higher for U.S. stocks followed a wild start to the week for financial markets in Asia, where Japanese stocks tumbled and Chinese indexes soared.

Wall Street's main stock indexes opened higher on Friday, with the S&P 500 near record highs, after soft inflation data raised expectations that the Federal Reserve could now focus on shoring up the labor market and continue easing interest rates.