NEW YORK (MarketWatch) — U.S. stocks on Tuesday finished mostly higher, with the S&P 500 up for the first session in five, as retailers including Best Buy Co. beat estimates and as Wall Street looked to clues about future U.S. monetary policy. “There are mixed signals coming into the market right now. Any week that you have Fed minutes being released, the market is going to go on pause until you get the minutes,” Chris Gaffney, senior market strategist at EverBank Financial, said of Wednesday’s release of minutes from the Federal Open Market Committee’s July 30-31 gathering. The Dow Jones Industrial Average fell 7.75 points, or 0.1%, to 15,002.99. The S&P 500 index gained 6.29 points, or 0.4%, to 1,652.35. The Nasdaq Composite climbed 24.50 points, or 0.7%, to 3,613.59.
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