Wall Street Running in Place

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Wall Street weaved in and out of positive territory Friday afternoon as the bulls struggle to add onto this week's gains despite a fresh batch of stronger-than-expected quarterly results from major companies like Amazon.com. Today's Markets As of 1:04 p.m. ET, the Dow Jones Industrial Average fell 24.98 points, or 0.22%, to 11121.67, the Standard & Poor's 500 added 0.97 points, or 0.08%, to 1181.23 and the Nasdaq Composite picked up 15.40 points, or 0.62%, to 2475.07. The FOX 50 slid 0.29 points, or 0.03%, to 849.23. While the markets were facing a mixed picture, they were still flirting with fresh five-month highs and their best levels of 2010. Wall Street struggled to rally around earnings beats from key companies like Verizon Communications'
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, Honeywell
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and Amazon.com
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. Enthusiasm for the earnings reports were offset by the flatlining greenback, which tends to have an inverse relationship with the markets and commodities.
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