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Good morning. Today is Thursday, August 4th and I'm your host Julie Morgan.

Our top stories, Walmart and crypto and later, Tesla, Boeing, Bed Bath and Beyond, and Costco.

After two days of declines, Wall Street

received renewed buying interest on Wednesday

as the market digested the latest rounds of earnings reports with the advance the

S&P 500 and NASDAQ both finished above last Friday's close more than

reversing the losses seen on Monday and Tuesday the Dowd ended just below last week's concluding level.

Ten of the 11 S&P sectors ended the day with gains.

This was led by communication services, consumer discretionary, and Infotech.

All three post-it-gains of at least 2.4%.

Energy represented the only declineer among the major market segments.

In the bond market, the U.S. 10-year Treasury yield dipped two basis points to 2.72%,

while the US 2-year Treasury yield edged up about a basis point to 3.09 percent.

In the earnings spotlight today. to 3.09 percent.

In the earning spotlight today, Ali Baba, Signa, Conoco Phillips, Paramount Global, Eli Lillie

Lily, Warner Brothers Discovery, and Block.

In our day watch is a notable new low.

The release of quarterly results prompted selling in Match Group, sending shares of the

online dating app to a new 52-week loan.

The stock finished lower by nearly 18%.

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