Wall Street drifted through mixed trading Thursday as rising fashion and cigarette stocks worked against drops for Ford Motor and Qualcomm. The S&P 500 rose 0.4% following healthy gains for stock markets across much of Europe and Asia.

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Some calm is returning to Wall Street, and U.S. stock indexes are making only modest moves after much of Europe and Asia rose earlier in the day

Asian shares are trading mostly higher after a Wall Street rally that followed profit reports from major companies

Trading on Wall Street is mixed and subdued with the arrival of more quarterly financial reports from major corporations and new data on the U.S. jobs market due over the final two days of the week. Futures for the S&P 500 and Dow Jones industrials shifted between tiny gains and losses before the bell Thursday,

Wall Street drifted higher as gains for most stocks outweighed drops for Alphabet and some other big-name companies following their latest earnings reports

Stocks on Wall Street edged higher Wednesday as the focus swings back toward how much profit businesses are making.

Wall Street is mixed as attention swings back toward how much profits companies are making and away from President Donald Trump’s tariffs, at least temporarily. The S&P 500 slipped 0.1%