Wall St ends higher; investors await earnings, Fed cues

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Major US stock indexes posted modest gains, helped by financial and industrial shares, while investors braced for a heavy week of corporate results and comments from Federal Reserve officials that could give more insight into the path of interest rates

Markets are gauging the health of corporate profits and the economy after several banks kicked off first-quarter reports with strong results last week.in New York State increased for the first time in five months in April, helping solidify the case for the U.S. central bank to raise rates at its meeting next month.

"Markets are in a bit of a wait-and-see mode," said Angelo Kourkafas, an investment strategist at Edward Jones. "We have a lot of corporate earnings ahead of us and the Fed rate decision in a couple of weeks."

 

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