Tech shares and muted GDP growth push S&P 500 to record

Wall Street rose on Friday, with the S&P 500 index hitting a record intraday high for the seventh time this month as gains in technology heavyweights Alphabet and Amazon more than made up for losses in energy shares. Alphabet contributed the most to gains on the Nasdaq and the S&P 500. Aggregate second-quarter earnings of S&P 500 companies are now expected to fall 3.7 percent, worse than a 2.8 percent decline predicted on Thursday, according to Thomson Reuters I/B/E/S. U.S. gross dom