"We got a lot of optimism for the earnings, but then you've got fear of inflation and that's kind of giving us a whipsaw market," said Dennis Dick, a proprietary trader at Bright Trading LLC. "The tech earnings starting next week can make the market forget about those fears (inflation)." Rate-sensitive lenders Citigroup Inc C.N, JPMorgan Chase & Co JPM.N, Goldman Sachs Group Inc GS.N, Morgan Stanley MS.N and Bank of America Corp BAC.N rose between 0.7% and 0.9%, tracking a rise in benchmark 10-year Treasury yield US10YT=RR.