Ah Federal Reserve policy announcement expected Wednesday, helped restrain the moves.

Systematic Ventures economist Max Wolff says he sees signs at the market may be nearing a peak.

Yeah, so I think you're sort of seeing a lot of topping signal, which I think you're starting to see in the market, which is, Yeah, the numbers are still good, but it's very hard to figure out what sends them better.

And in many cases it's really hard to see how they can stay up here.

You had some easy comparisons because last year kind of Q one was disastrous.

The Dow and the NASDAQ and it just below the break even level the S and P 500 inch nearly 2/10 percent lower.

Three M was the Dow's second leading gainer.

Lower costs and higher demand for hand sanitizers, masks and safety glasses amid the health crisis helped lift its quarterly profit past analyst targets, also keeping the blue chip index from falling further.

Johnson and Johnson, the drugmaker, said it expects to release data on its covert 19 vaccine early next week.

After the markets closed, Microsoft reported that quarterly profit jumped 33% easily beating expectations revenue growth at its cloud computing service.

Azure also topped analyst targets as people stayed and studied at home.

Shares rose 4.5% after hours.

Shares of Starbucks slid the world's largest coffee chains.

Comparable sales fell more than expected as a rising number of coronavirus cases kept its US customers at home.