While you were sleeping: Solid US GDP, jobs

While you were sleeping: Solid US GDP, jobs
By Margreet Dietz July 31 (BusinessDesk) - Wall Street was mixed as better-than-expected US economic growth and solid jobs data offset disappointing results from Procter & Gamble as well as Whole Foods Market. In late afternoon trading in New York, the Dow Jones Industrial Average was steady, the Standard & Poor’s 500 Index eked out a 0.03 percent advance, while the Nasdaq Composite Index added 0.4 percent. Gains in shares of Microsoft and those of United Technologies, last up 1.6 percent and 1.5 percent respectively, offset slides in...