[BRIEFING.COM] The S&P 500 (-0.37%) is narrowly in "first" place, down just 25 points and firmly off afternoon lows.
Briefly, S&P 500 constituents Charter Comm (CHTR 205.95, +14.43, +7.53%), Air Products (APD 271.76, +15.74, +6.15%), and Colgate-Palmolive (CL 89.28, +4.04, +4.74%) pepper the top of the average all following earnings.
Meanwhile, AppLovin (APP 492.17, -77.07, -13.54%) is second-worst performer in the standings as Google's (GOOG/L 338.52, -0.14, -0.04%) Project Genie fuels fears AI will accelerate game creation, intensifying competition and pressuring mobile ad monetization.