Amazon.com Inc. (NASDAQ:AMZN)‘s best earnings-day pop in years and a nearly $475 billion wipeout in Apple Inc. (NASDAQ:AAPL) market valuation pulled Wall Street in opposite directions Friday, leaving indexes searching for direction into midday as the AI trade split in two.
The S&P 500 held a 0.5% gain near 7,472 while small caps turned lower, a day after tech’s bounce off correction territory.