[BRIEFING.COM] There hasn't been much up or down movement at the index level in recent trading. The S&P 500 sports a 0.2% gain and the Nasdaq Composite trades 0.2% higher while the Russell 2000 trades 0.3% lower.
Boeing (BA 156.78, +3.45, +2.3%) shares moved higher after confirming that it substantially increased the machinist contract offer, attempting to end the strike.
BA is among the top performing names in the S&P 500 industrial sector (+0.6%) and in the Dow Jones Industrial Average (+0.1%).