Traders work on the floor of the New York Stock Exchange (NYSE) in New York City, U.S., October 20, 2023.
Aerospace major RTX (RTX.N) jumped 6.1% after it reported better-than-expected quarterly earnings.
Of the 118 S&P 500 (.SPX) companies that have reported earnings so far, 81.4% have topped analysts' expectations, LSEG data showed.
Ten of the 11 major S&P 500 sectors were trading higher, with energy (.SPNY) the sole outlier, down 1.0%, on weaker crude prices.
HCA Healthcare (HCA.N) fell 4.9% after the hospital operator missed Wall Street estimates for quarterly profit as its physician-staffing joint venture missed internal growth targets.
Persons:
Brendan McDermid, Hugh Anderson, what's, you've, Bitcoin, Shubham Batra, Shashwat Chauhan, Sruthi Shankar, Vinay Dwivedi
Organizations:
New York Stock Exchange, REUTERS, Big Tech, Verizon, Dow, Nasdaq, U.S, General, Aerospace, HighTower Advisors, P, Microsoft, Reserve, Dow Jones, Marathon, HCA Healthcare, NYSE, Thomson
Locations:
New York City, U.S, Israel, Gaza, Bengaluru