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Technology and health care companies powered U.S. stocks solidly higher Tuesday afternoon as investors welcomed surprisingly good quarterly results from some of the nation's biggest companies.

Solid earnings from UnitedHealth Group, JPMorgan Chase and other companies helped lift the market, erasing modest losses from a day earlier. Investors are looking to the wave of quarterly report cards due out over the next few weeks to give them a clearer picture of what impact the trade war between the U.S. and China is having on corporate profits and the broader economy.