Major stocks indexes hover near record highs on Wall Street

Stock indexes are mixed on Wall Street in afternoon trading Wednesday as the market eases off a fresh set of record highs reached on optimism that coronavirus vaccines could soon start driving a stronger economic recovery. The S&P 500 was little changed a day after opening December with a bang. Technology companies were the biggest drag on the market. Salesforce.com sank after announcing a deal late Tuesday to buy messaging platform Slack for $27.7 billion. Pfizer and BioNTech said they&rsqu