Wall Street nears record terrain as quarterly reports roll in

The S&P 500 rose towards a record high in a choppy session on Tuesday, lifted by energy stocks and a solid quarterly report from Johnson & Johnson. After dipping into negative territory and then recovering, the S&P 500 was less than 2 percent short of last May's record high close, with investors laser-focused on a growing flow of first-quarter earnings scorecards, including Intel and Yahoo after the bell. Chevron and other energy stocks got a lift from a rally in crude after a strike