Stocks drifted on Wall Street amid a vacuum of market-moving data.
The S&P 500 rose 0.2 percent Tuesday. The Dow Jones Industrial Average closed up 10 points while the Nasdaq added 0.4 percent. Banks were some of the bigger gainers, recovering from their struggles earlier this year after high interest rates helped cause several high-profile failures.
The cryptocurrency world took another hit after U.S. regulators accused the Coinbase crypto trading platform of operating as an unregistered securities exchange. The S&P 500 is closing in on a gain of 20 percent from where it was in mid-October.
On Tuesday:
The S&P 500 rose 10.06 points, or 0.2 percent, to 4,283.85.
The Dow Jones Industrial Average rose 10.42 points, or less than 0.1 percent, to 33,573.28.
The Nasdaq composite rose 46.99 points, or 0.4 percent to 13,276.42.
The Russell 2000 index of smaller companies rose 48.69 points, or 2.7 percent, to 1,855.40.
For the week:
The S&P 500 is up 1.48 points, or less than 0.1 percent.
The Dow is down 189.48 points, or 0.6 percent.
The Nasdaq is up 35.65 points, or 0.3 percent.
The Russell 2000 is up 24.49 points, or 1.3 percent.
For the year:
The S&P 500 is up 444.35 points, or 11.6 percent.
The Dow is up 426.03 points, or 1.3 percent.
The Nasdaq is up 2,809.94 points, or 26.8 percent.
The Russell 2000 is up 94.15 points, or 5.3 percent.
