Wall Street to open up on tech earnings, Nasdaq to extend record

U.S. stocks were set to open higher on Friday as strong results from tech behemoths Google, Amazon and Microsoft set the Nasdaq Composite on track to extend its run after surpassing on Thursday a 15-year-old record. The S&P 500 touched a record intraday high on Thursday, while the Nasdaq closed at 5,056.06, surpassing its record set in March 2000, just before the dot-com bubble burst. "I think we're on more solid footing than the last time," said Gordon Charlop, managing direc