US equity markets mixed as investors continued to digest the latest batch of corporate earnings releases - Dow rose +104-points or +0.31%, booking a third straight session of gains. The broader S&P500 dipped -0.07%, with Communication Services (-0.69%) and Health Care (-0.65%) both down over >0.5% and leading five of the eleven primary sectors lower. Industrials sat atop the primary sector leaderboard with a +0.65% rise. The Nasdaq slipped -0.27%. The small capitalisation Russell 2000 lost -0.27%.