by Stephen Culp

New York (Reuters) – The New York Stock Exchange ended up slightly on Tuesday after a sawtooth session, investors who have favored caution in the start of a shortened week, so that was expected on Wednesday The report of the last meeting of the Federal Reserve (Fed), against a background of geopolitical and commercial uncertainties.

The Dow Jones index won 0.02%, or 10.26 points, at 44,556.34 points.

The wider S&P-500 took 14.95 points, or 0.24%, to 6,129.58 points.

The Nasdaq Composite advanced 14.49 points (0.07%) to 20,041.26 points.

After alternating gains and folded over the session, the three main Wall Street indices finally settled in positive territory. The S & P-500 has signed a closing record, exceeding the peak reached on January 23.

“There is a kind of little hangover after the three-day weekend,” said Ryan Detrick, chief strategist of Carson Group in Omaha, in reference to the closure of Wall Street on Monday, public holiday in the States- United.

“Nothing important has really happened, which is rather positive, it makes it possible to consolidate before potential new records,” he added, while the season of quarterly results is coming to an end.

Ryan Detrick noted that the publication of the “minutes” of the January monetary policy of the FED then the “minutes of the Walmart monetary policy. “But when you put all this end to end, you have a day like today when the wait-and-see wasting,” he said.

Investors are waiting for possible additional indices on the Fed monetary policy on Wednesday, while managers of the American central bank expressed their prudence as to new rate drops, citing the signs of persistent inflation and the linked uncertainty to the trade policy of American president Donald Trump.

The president of the Fed of Philadelphia, Patrick Harker, and the governors of the Central Bank Michelle Bowman and Christopher Waller said that economic and high inflation required the interest rates unchanged.

Mary Daly, president of the Fed of San Francisco, reiterated that a break in the relaxation of monetary policy was necessary as long as additional progress towards the inflation objective of 2% would not be visible.

“The Fed is rather transparent there,” said Chuck Carlson, Managing Director of Horizon Investment Services, in Indiana. “There are signs that the economy slows down a bit, I am sure that the Fed notes them. But I don’t think it feels, at least for the moment, a great pressure to reduce rates soon,” said -Al continued.

The majority of companies in the S & P-500 have communicated their quarterly results. Among these 383 companies, 74% beat expectations, according to LSEG data.

On the values ​​side, Intel jumped 16.1% after press information during the weekend according to which its Rivals Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Co. and Broadcom are considering buyout offers to share the American group. Meta Platforms declined by 2.8%, seeing his series of twenty gains sessions stop.

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