By Amanda Cooper and Lawrence Delevingne LONDON/BOSTON (Reuters) -Wall Street shares advanced on Thursday as investors cheered updates from Meta and Tesla , while the dollar dipped, further boosting gold prices.

Wall Street are pointing mostly higher in premarket trading while more corporate earnings poured in a day after the Federal Reserve opted to leave its benchmark lending rate alone

Dow Jones futures and S&P 500 futures edged lower early Thursday while Nasdaq futures rose modestly.The Federal Reserve meeting will conclude Wednesday afternoon but the attention will quickly turn to Tesla,

The Federal Reserve is widely expected to hold its benchmark interest rate steady Wednesday, taking a pause after cutting short-term rates [by a full percentage point](

In extended trading, shares of Meta Platforms and Tesla gained nearly 2% and 5%, respectively, while Microsoft shares dipped 4% after the companies reported earnings. Both Meta and Microsoft beat on the top and bottom lines, but Tesla missed expectations.

The Fed is widely expected to make no change to interest rates today, after cutting the benchmark short-term rate at every one of its last three meetings. There also won't be any quarterly economic or interest-rate projections.

Meta Platforms and most other U.S. stocks are rising, but drops for Nvidia and Microsoft are weighing on the market.

Meta Platforms and most other U.S. stocks are rising Thursday following a rush of profit reports from some of the country's most influential companies, but drops for Nvidia and Microsoft are keeping the market in check.

Most U.S. stocks are ticking higher following a rush of profit reports from some of the country’s most influential companies.

Wall Street ended up on relief Meta and Microsoft kept their AI spending plans even amid mixed earnings. Next up, Apple earnings.