Tesla, IBM and Meta Platforms helped lead most U.S. stocks higher after a rush of profit reports from some of the country's most influential companies

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 MSFT.O dropped 4.7% after forecasting disappointing growth in its cloud computing business.

Tesla missed Wall Street’s fourth-quarter earnings estimates despite being helped by a gain in the company’s bitcoin holdings. Shares rose anyway in late trading as nothing really changed in the outlook for self-driving cars and new EV models designed to boost growth.