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Most U.S. stocks are ticking higher following a rush of profit reports from some of the country's most influential companies. The S&P 500 was up 0.2% in morning trading. The Dow Jones Industrial Average was up 150 points, or 0.3%, as of 10:45 a.m.

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Market optimism around BTC and ETH is climbing following the Federal Reserve's decision to keep rates steady.

'As we get more certainty, we could see crypto rallying ahead of the next shift,' says one analyst.

WASHINGTON (Reuters) -U.S. economic growth slowed in the fourth quarter as a strike at Boeing contributed to depressing business investment, but robust consumer spending probably keeps the Federal Reserve on a slow interest rate cut path this year. The moderation in growth last quarter reported by the Commerce Department on Thursday was also because inventories at businesses were run down, underscoring the strong domestic demand. There was a surprise drop in imports, despite imports helping to boost the goods trade deficit to a record high in December, which had prompted economists to sharply downgrade their fourth-quarter growth estimates.

Wall Street's main indexes rose on Thursday, driven by post-earnings advances in Meta and Tesla, although Microsoft's weak cloud forecast and downbeat results from Cigna dampened investor enthusiasm. Microsoft dropped 4.7% after forecasting disappointing growth in its cloud computing business. Meta Platforms rose 4.5% after beating estimates for fourth-quarter revenue, but forecast that first-quarter sales might miss estimates.

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