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Provided by Dow Jones By Will Horner U.S. stocks slipped Tuesday, on track to extend their losses as investors assess blue-chip companies' profits and sales prospects. The Dow Jones Industrial Average dropped 0.9%, while the S&P 500 fell 0.8% and the Nasdaq Composite lost 1.1%. All three indexes also declined Monday, breaking a recent winning streak. Investors are looking to companies' first-quarter earnings and their outlooks for the rest of the year to gauge whether valuations on stocks are justified. Strong U.S. economic data has bolstered expectations ...

Provided by Dow Jones By Will Horner U.S. stock futures wobbled Tuesday ahead of a bumper day of earnings reports from blue-chip companies. Futures on the S&P 500 and the Dow Jones Industrial Average ticked up less than 0.1%. Technology-heavy Nasdaq-100 futures rose 0.1%, a day after faltering tech companies dragged major indexes lower. Investors are looking to companies' first-quarter earnings and their outlook for the rest of the year to gauge whether valuations on stocks are justified. Progress in rolling out Covid-19 vaccines and strong economic data h...

Provided by Dow Jones By Will Horner and Julia Carpenter U.S. stocks slipped Tuesday, on track to extend their losses as investors assess blue-chip companies' profits and sales prospects. The Dow Jones Industrial Average dropped 0.9%, while the S&P 500 fell 0.8% and the Nasdaq Composite lost 1.2%. All three indexes declined Monday, breaking a recent winning streak. Investors are looking to companies' first-quarter results and their outlooks for the rest of the year to gauge whether valuations on stocks are justified. Strong U.S. economic data has bolstered...

Provided by Dow Jones By Will Horner and Michael Wursthorn Investors sold tech stocks Wednesday, knocking some major stock indexes lower after reaching all-time highs earlier in the day, as volatility continued to reverberate across the market. The Dow Jones Industrial Average opened higher, rising as much as 234 points, reaching an intraday high, after several banks kicked off the latest earnings-reporting season with blowout profit reports. But the blue-chip index gave up a significant chunk of the gain as the day wore on, much of it evaporating after the rele...

Provided by Dow Jones By Will Horner and Michael Wursthorn The Dow Jones Industrial Average pared earlier gains as investors begin shifting their focus to the latest earnings-reporting season, starting with the biggest banks. Goldman Sachs Group accounted for a significant chunk of the blue-chip index's momentum after the bank reported sharply higher profits for the first quarter, benefiting from a turbocharged market and an economic recovery. Energy stocks also rose, giving the stock market an added boost, after the International Energy Agency on Wednesda...