Here is a recap of the top news items from this week on Wall Street:

1. Data on producer and consumer prices this week showed that concerns related to inflation may have previously been overdone. PPI for February actually fell 0.6%, better than the 0.2% drop economists had been expecting, while CPI for the month was flat. Traders received mixed signals, however, as India’s Reserve Bank chose to be one of the first central banks to raise key lending rates this week.

2. As promised by Fed Chairman Ben Bernanke, the Federal Reserve said Tuesday that it will hold key interest rates