Tesla, IBM and Meta Platforms helped lead most U.S. stocks higher after a rush of profit reports from some of the country’s most influential companies

Stocks fluctuated Thursday as shares of tech companies struggled following mixed earnings and as Wall Street awaited Apple’s quarterly report.These stocks were making moves Thursday:Tesla reported fourth-quarter adjusted earnings of 73 cents a share,

World markets are mostly higher following gains on Wall Street driven by Tesla, IBM and Meta Platforms after strong profit reports.

The S&P 500 rose 0.5%, as four out of every five stocks in the index climbed. The Dow Jones Industrial Average added 168 points, or 0.4%, and the Nasdaq composite gained 0.3%.

Lam Research issued better-than-expected guidance for the current quarter. For its current quarter, the maker of equipment for semiconductor manufacturing forecast per-share earnings between 90 cents and $1.

U.S. stock futures point mostly higher as investors react to corporate earnings, Apple is slated to report results after the bell, and Tesla stock gains after the company delivers an upbeat update on its Full Self-Driving technology.

TSLA, META, MSFT, IBM, NVDA were among the stocks that dominated investor attention on the day Federal Reserve chose to keep the interest rates steady.

On Wall Street, Tesla drove 2.9% higher even though Elon Musk’s electric-vehicle company reported a weaker profit for the latest quarter than analysts expected. Mr Musk asserted Tesla will offer unsupervised “full self-driving” technology to its customers as a paid service starting in Austin in June.

S&P 500 futures are up 0.5%. Dow Jones Industrial Average futures are gaining 0.4%. Nasdaq 100 futures are rising 0.7%. On Wednesday, the Dow Jones Industrial Average fell 137 points, or 0.31%, to 44,

IBM delivered better-than-expected fourth-quarter results and unveiled its big bets on artificial intelligence strategies and offerings.

Microsoft (MSFT), Meta Platforms (META), IBM (IBM), and Tesla (TSLA) reported their latest earnings results on Wednesday. The latest data found that US GDP growth (gross domestic product ...

The Dow and S&P 500 are near all-time highs early Friday as Apple stock flashes a buy signal. Deckers and Atlassian diverged on earnings.