STOCKS INCH HIGHER: Here's what you need to know

Stocks closed little changed on Thursday ahead of the first set of earnings from the big Wall Street banks on Friday.

Here's the scoreboard:

• Dow: 21,546.98, +14.84, (0.07%)
• S&P 500: 2,447.45, +4.20, (0.17%)
• Nasdaq: 6,270.79, +9.62, (0.15%)

1. $4. "Snap is what investors have long wanted (and many still want) Twitter to be; a thriving communications platform for hundreds of millions of high-value consumers" that can drive monetization, said Scott Devitt, an analyst.
2. Senate Republican leadership released the updated version>$4$4. Some of Obamacare's taxes are kept, and there's increased funding for the opiod crisis. But almost immediately, two Republican senators came out against a procedural vote that would get the bill to the floor of the Senate, meaning Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell and GOP leaders cannot afford to lose another vote.
3. $4.' Mick Mulvaney, the director of the Office of Management and Budget, outlined it in a $4 on Thursday. Its core plan, Mulvaney wrote, is to get the US back to 3% economic growth.
4. $4. Yellen's appeared before the Senate Committee on Banking, Housing and Urban Affairs as part of her semiannual Humphrey-Hawkins testimony.
5. $4. First-time filings for unemployment insurance dipped by 3,000 to 247,000.

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