Wall Street is drifting Wednesday as gains for most stocks outweigh drops for Alphabet and some other big-name companies following their latest profit reports. The S&P 500 was 0.2% higher in late trading.

Google's parent company and other tech stocks are weighing on a mixed Wall Street 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%

Calm returned to Wall Street Tuesday, and tech stocks led U.S. indexes higher following a strong profit report from Palantir Technologies, a darling benefiting from the artificial-intelligence boom. The S&P 500 rose 0.