Wall Street rises on earnings

Stocks on Wall Street ended their day higher Thursday fueled by solid earnings from a string of companies, as well as a preliminary Brexit deal.

The Dow ended the day up 50 points, while the S&P 500 ended its day up three-tenths of a percent.

Thomson Reuters Stocks Buzz Analyst Terence Gabriel:

"It looks as if the market is going to remain focused on earnings. Whether or not the earnings that companies provide give confidence in growth rates moving forward. And also the Federal Reserve and whether they're going to be as aggressively dovish as the market is expecting them to be."

Morgan Stanley rounded out earnings from the big banks - beating the Street on profits. It closed up nearly 2 percent.

Meanwhile, Netflix helped lift the communications sector - the streaming giant's shares ended the day up nearly 3 percent after it said it added slightly more subscribers than Wall Street was expecting.

But it wasn't all upbeat on the earnings front. Honeywell fell short of expectations with customers forgoing spending in the face of geopolitical uncertainties including Brexit and trade.

Though positive developments on those fronts - including an agreement between the EU and UK on Brexit - helped the stock close up more than 2 percent.