Stock market rides high on mixed bag of corporate news

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Wall Street was in record territory Thursday as a mixed batch of corporate earnings streamed in, according to the Associated Press.

The S&P 500 climbed 0.2% one day after hitting a new high. The Dow Jones Industrial Average bounced back from an early slide to add 0.1%, and the Nasdaq was 0.5% higher.

Technology and communication services saw gains that balanced declines in health care and most other sectors.

Broadcom was up 2.5%, Oracle 2% and Google parent Alphabet 2.1%.

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Tech giant Nvidia fell 1.2% a day after its reported quarterly earnings and revenue beat Wall Street forecasts.

Best Buy slipped 5% after the consumer electronics chain’s second-quarter snapshot was overshadowed by a tariff-clouded outlook.

Urban Outfitters plummeted 9.7% and also warned that it expects tariffs will increase pressure on its gross margins in the second half of the year.

Dick’s Sporting Goods fell 4.1% despite reporting second-quarter results that beat analysts’ expectations.

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Victoria’s Secret & Co. gave up an early gain and was down 1.7%

Retail chain Burlington Stores bucked the trend, climbing 7% after its latest earnings topped analysts’ estimates.

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