Stocks dip as earnings pour in, consumer discretionary lags

By Chuck Mikolajczak NEW YORK (Reuters) - U.S. stocks dipped in a choppy session after the latest round of earnings reports, as a decline in the consumer discretionary sector and interest-rate sensitive stocks outweighed gains in healthcare names. The S&P 500 healthcare index rose 0.53 percent to help keep the S&P 500 near the unchanged mark, buoyed by strong results and forecasts from Bristol-Myers , up 5.4 percent and Celgene , up 6.4 percent. The two drugmakers were the top boosts to