Wall Street: S&P 500 and U.S. yields end higher

Wall Street was a mixed bag across the spectrum while the S&P 500 ended a little higher as did treasury yields for a fifth straight session.

On the back of the positive prospects for on the U.S. labor market report tomorrow due to yet further positive data form the U.S. today in another weekly decline in the number of Americans applying for unemployment benefits, U.S. two year yield  0.8496%, up 2 basis points, 10 year note yield 1.7389%,  ip4 basis points and 30 year bond yield 2.4591%, up 4 basis points. 

Meanwhile, stocks reacted to a high-ranking European Central Bank official dismissing rumors of scaling back easing measures. However, the Dow Jones Industrial Average was down by 12.53 points, or less than 0.1%, to finish up at 18,268.50 while the S&P 500 Index moved up by 1.04 points, or less than 0.1%, to close at 2,160.77 and the Nasdaq Composite index also fell by 0.2%, to close at 5,306.85.