Wall Street closes positive ahead of Fed as earnings fed sentiment

FXStreet (San Francisco) - The US stocks market closed higher on Tuesday as investors' confidence was fed by a set of upbeat corporate earnings as well as a not-that-bad consumer confidence index.

The Dow and the S&P turned positive for April while the DJIA finished near to record high close.

The Dow Jones advanced 86.18 points or 0.52% to finish the day at 16,534.92; the S&P 500 added 8.90 pts or 0.48% to close at 1,878.33; while the Nasdaq Composite won 29.14 pts or 0.72% to 4,103.54.