 Stocks are higher as investors digested a string of fresh economic data ahead of the release of the Fed's closely watched inflation report for May, which is the personal consumption expenditures price index, which will be released on Friday morning. On the economic front, weekly jobless claims fell by 6,000 to 233,000, while a final print showed that U.S. economic growth increased more than estimated in the first quarter, with the gross domestic product expanding 1.4 percent, which was the slowest quarterly growth