Stocks are ticking higher on Wall Street following a rush of profit reports from some of the country’s most influential companies. The S&P 500 rose 0.3% in early Thursday trading. The Dow Jones Industrial Average slipped 14 points,

The calm moves in futures come after a Wednesday trading session that saw the S&P 500 set an intraday record high on Wednesday. The broad market index finished the day with a gain of 0.61%, just below its record closing high, for a third-straight winning session.

Alaska Air Group ( ALK) shares climbed when the airline also topped profit and sales forecasts after it completed its acquisition of Hawaiian Airlines. While Alaska Air advanced, shares of American Airlines ( AAL) plunged as the carrier predicted its first-quarter loss would be more than expected and warned of higher costs.

U.S. stocks traded mixed midway through trading, with the Dow Jones index gaining around 250 points on Thursday. The Dow traded up 0.58% to 44,412.35 while the NASDAQ fell 0.30% to 19,949.51. The S&P 500 also rose, gaining, 0.09% to 6,091.83.

Stocks took a leg up after Trump said Thursday in a virtual address to the World Economic Forum that he would “demand that interest rates drop immediately.”

Wall Street pointed mostly higher in premarket trading Thursday while more corporate earnings poured in a day after the Federal Reserve opted to leave its benchmark lending rate alone. Futures for the S&P 500 rose 0.

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ET, the Dow Jones Industrial Average rose 0.58 per cent, the S&P 500 gained 0.14 per cent, the Nasdaq Composite lost 0.19 per cent

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The S&P 500 climbed to a fresh record on Thursday, driven by President Donald Trump’s calls for immediate interest rate cuts and cheaper oil prices.