The Dow rose 141.24 points, or 0.37%, to 38,521.36. The S&P 500 climbed 11.42 points, or 0.23 %, to 4,954.23 and the Nasdaq gained 11.32 points, or 0.07 %, to end at 15,609.00.
NEW YORK: The S&P 500 closed slightly higher on Tuesday, as investors scrutinized a mixed bag of earnings at big US companies and digested comments from Federal Reserve policy makers for clues about its first planned interest-rate cut.
Minneapolis Fed president Neel Kashkari said the central bank is "not done yet" with inflation although he noted it had come down quickly with three-month and six-month inflation data "basically" at the Fed's 2% goal.
