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S&P 500 closes higher in late session U-turn

Wall Street reversed its losses late Tuesday, with the S&P 500 and the Dow creeping into positive territory by the close.

The Nasdaq was the only major U.S. stock index in the session to lose ground, falling half a percentage point.

High flying tech stocks, such as Apple and Amazon, weighed on the market for much of the day as investors instead rushed into shares that stand to benefit the most from a reopening economy.

Investor's anxieties eased after Federal Reserve Chair Jerome Powell in testimony before congress pushed back against concerns that inflation will become a threat and signaled no change to the central bank’s easy-money policies.

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"The main thing that we can do is continue to support the economy, give it the support that it needs. We're still 10 million jobs below the level of payroll jobs before the crisis. There is still a long way to go to full recovery. And we intend to keep our policy supportive of that recovery."

Max Wolff, economist at Systematic Ventures says investors are at an inflection point.

“The market has tended to see all the bad news as fabulous, as an insurance that interest rates will stay in the near 0 zone and policy will remain accommodative. But I think it’s starting to dawn on some people that there’s actually a reason for that and it isn’t so fabulous, which is that for a lot of folks specifically the bottom 60-80% of the income distribution and for those unable to work remotely, there’s been a whole lot of loss.”

Tesla closed more than 2% lower after sliding as much as 13% earlier in the session.

The electric carmaker dropped amid the tech selloff and the decline of Bitcoin. The company had recently announced it invested $1.5 billion into the cryptocurrency, which took a hit on Tuesday.

Meanwhile, home improvement retailer Home Depot posted better-than-expected quarterly earnings.

But it cast doubt on whether spiking sales, driven by consumers taking on do-it-yourself projects as they spend more time at home, are sustainable going forward.

Its shares were the heaviest drag on the Dow, falling 3%.