U.S. stocks are rising Tuesday after more companies said they made bigger profits at the end of last year than analysts expected. The S&P 500 was up 0.7% in afternoon trading, as many markets around the world took only tentative steps following Donald Trump’s return to the White House on Monday.

Markets are pointing higher on the first day of trading under the second administration of U.S. President Donald Trump.

U.S. stocks rose after more companies said they made bigger profits at the end of last year than analysts expected and as Treasury yields eased.

U.S. stock indexes are drifting higher following a mostly encouraging batch of profit reports from big companies.

Tuesday’s rising market tides also lifted the biggest boats moored in Silicon Valley. Several tech giants saw their stock prices go up: Alphabet ros

US stocks ticked higher but currencies swung a day after Donald Trump’s inauguration, as investors weighed further tariff threats from the new president against an absence of day one actions. The S&P 500 was up 0.

Wall Street’s main indexes closed higher on Tuesday, with the S&P 500 and the Dow hitting their highest in more than a month, as investors assessed Donald Trump’s first actions as president and breathed relief that he did not start his second term with blanket tariff increases.