Corporate financial reports from Microsoft (NASDAQ: MSFT), Google (NASDAQ: GOOG) and Amazon.com (NASDAQ: AMZN) helped send U.S. markets into nominal positive territory despite continued concern over earnings missing Wall Street expectations, according to the Wall Street Journal.
The Dow Jones Industrial Average gained 21.45Â points to 18, 080.14, the S&P 500 composite index rose 4.77 points to 2, 117.70 and the NASDAQ composite index climbed 36.02Â points to 5, 092.08.
Top Percentage Gainers
 Company |  Stock Price |  $ Change |  % Change |
  Serco Inc. |  2.60 |   0.09 |   3.59% |
  BAE Systems Inc. |   31.18 |   0.67 |   2.20% |
  Navistar |   30.16 |   0.41 |   1.38% |
  General Dynamics |   134.10 |   1.30 |   0.98% |
  Healthnet |   58.28 |   0.41 |   0.71% |
Market Summary
 Advancing Issues |   10 (33.33%) |
 Declining Issues |   20 (66.66%) |
 Unchanged Issues |    0 |
Executive Mosaic‘s GovCon Index is a composite index that tracks 30 of the largest publicly-traded Government Contracting (GovCon) firms.