Stocks have moved mostly higher over the course of the trading day on Wednesday, regaining ground following the pullback seen in the previous session.
Currently, the tech-heavy Nasdaq is up 114.58 points or 0.6 percent at 21,031.14, the S&P 500 is up 26.56 points or 0.4 percent at 6,325.75 and the Dow is up 46.89 points or 0.1 percent at 44,158.63.
The strength on Wall Street partly reflects a positive reaction to some of the latest earnings news, with shares of McDonald's (MCD) surging by 3.0 percent.
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