Wall Street ticks higher on US election day

US stock indexes were ticking higher on Tuesday as voters head to the polls on the last day of the US presidential poll.

The S&P 500 was up 0.4 per cent in early trading, inching closer to its record set last month. The Dow Jones Industrial Average was up 66 points, as of 8:05 pm (IST) and the Nasdaq composite was 0.6 per cent higher. Excitement about the AI boom helped lift Wall Street, as it has for much of the last year. Software company Palantir Technologies jumped 16.7 per cent after delivering bigger profit and revenue than analysts expected for the latest quarter.