Wall Street touched record intraday highs on Tuesday, helped by a surge in Wal-Mart Stores, while Amazon and technology stocks lost ground an investors focussed on upcoming quarterly reports.
Wal-Mart
That helped the S&P 500 consumer staples index <.splrcs> jump 0.77 percent, although gains in that sector were limited by P&G
Third-quarter corporate reporting season kicks into high gear on Thursday with results from JPMorgan Chase
Wall Street has mostly shrugged off recent saber-rattling between the United States and North Korea, as well as a lack of progress by President Donald Trump in delivering promised corporate tax cuts.
"The only fear in this market is the fear of missing out," said Dennis Dick, a proprietary trader at Bright Trading LLC in Las Vegas. "But things can change quickly. There`s stuff out there, like North Korea. You still have to be cautious."
All three major indexes were off of earlier intra-day record highs.
At 2:32 p.m. ET, the Dow Jones Industrial Average <.dji> was up 0.2 percent at 22,806.57 points, while the S&P 500 <.spx> had gained 0.15 percent to 2,548.46.
The Nasdaq Composite <.ixic> dropped 0.03 percent to 6,577.63.
The tech index <.splrct>, the best performing among the 11 major S&P sectors this year, fell 0.14 percent, weighed down by Alphabet
Among the gainers in tech stocks was Nvidia
American Airlines
Energy stocks <.spny> got a boost from a near 2-percent rise in oil prices supported by Saudi Arabian export cuts in November and comments from OPEC and trading companies that the market is rebalancing after years of oversupply.
Advancing issues outnumbered declining ones on the NYSE by a 1.70-to-1 ratio; on Nasdaq, a 1.31-to-1 ratio favoured advancers.
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