"We don't expect earnings growth to be the big driver going forward"
- Andres Garcia-Amaya, global market strategist at J.P. Morgan Funds
U.S. stocks closed mixed on Friday after a late-afternoon selloff.
The Standard & Poor's 500 slid 0.01 per cent to 1,460.15. The Dow Jones Industrial Average erased 0.13 per cent to 13,579.47. The Nasdaq Composite edged higher 0.13 per cent to 3,179.96.
"A question that investors keep asking themselves is, 'Can this risk rally continue without the help of the European Central Bank and the Fed?'" said Andres Garcia-Amaya, global market strategist at J.P. Morgan Funds.
"We don't expect earnings growth to be the big driver going forward."
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