Wall Street edged back from its all-time high on Friday, as U.S. stock indexes drifted following mixed profit reports from big companies. The S&P 500 barely budged and slipped by less than 0.1%, a day after rallying within 0.

Indexes closed near session highs Thursday, despite a White House announcement of new actions on import tariffs. Companies in the IBD 50 outperformed the major averages, a bullish signal for growth investors.

U.S. stocks are sinking after a report said inflation is unexpectedly getting worse for Americans. The S&P 500 fell 0.9% in early Wednesday trading.

Rising instability among some of the biggest US stocks is driving a measure of single-stock “fragility” to record levels, with the market increasingly vulnerable to whipsaw patterns among clusters of shares such as occurred in the dot-com bubble of the late 1990s.

Some calm is returning to Wall Street, and U.S. stock indexes are making only modest moves after much of Europe and Asia rose earlier in the day

Wall Street is flirting with a record on Friday, as U.S. stock indexes drift following some mixed profit reports from big companies. The S&P 500 rose 0.1% in afternoon trading, a day after rallying within 0.

Wall Street fell short of a record following mixed profit reports from big companies. The S&P 500 ended essentially flat Friday, a day after rallying within 0.1% of its all-time

Wall Street is taking a pause after running to the brink of a record following some mixed profit reports from big U.S. companies. The S&P 500 was flat in early trading Friday and hovering around the all-time high it set last month.