Stocks End Day With Mixed Results on Wall Street

Stocks are closing broadly higher on Wall Street as investors respond to some positive company earnings reports, the AP reports. Railroad operator CSX jumped 7.8% Wednesday and aircraft maker Textron rose 6.8% after reporting results that beat analysts' forecasts. Best Buy climbed 3.6% after announcing a partnership to sell Fire TVs with Amazon. IBM slumped 7.5% after its results failed to impress investors, pulling the Dow Jones industrial average lower. Oil prices rose, lifting energy companies. Devon Energy climbed 7.2%. The S&P 500 index rose 2 points, or 0.1%, to 2,708. The Dow lost 38 points, or 0.2%, to 24,748. The Nasdaq composite climbed 14 points, or 0.2%, to 7,295. (More stock market stories.)