U.S. stocks edge downward as Wall Street takes a pause

Also on Thursday, President Donald Trump said he had walked out of his Vietnam summit with Kim Jong Un because of demands from the North Korean leader to lift U.S.-led sanctions.Wall Street analysts now expect first-quarter earnings to fall 1.1 percent compared with Jan. 1 estimates for 5.3 percent growth, according to IBES data from Refinitiv.Fourth quarter earnings is coming to a quick close and there's been no news on the U.S.-China trade negotiations.