Wall St. flat as weak earnings offset rise in oil

A rebound in oil and better-than-expected earnings from Goldman Sachs and Johnson & Johnson had pushed the S&P briefly over 2,100, within 30 points of its record high. The Nasdaq composite was weighed by a 25 percent slide in Illumina. First-quarter earnings at S&P 500 companies are expected to fall 7.6 percent on average, according to Thomson Reuters I/B/E/S.