By Lawrence Delevingne and Amanda Cooper BOSTON/LONDON (Reuters) -Wall Street shares advanced on Thursday as investors cheered updates from Meta and Tesla , while gold hit a record and the U.S. dollar advanced on potential tariffs.

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

Tesla, IBM and Meta Platforms helped lead most U.S. stocks higher on Thursday following a rush of profit reports from some of the country’s most influential companies. The S&P 500 rose 0.5%, as four out of every five stocks in the index climbed.

Meta Platforms rose 2.4% in premarket trading after beating estimates for fourth-quarter revenue, but predicted that sales in the current first quarter might miss estimates. Tesla added 2.2% after saying it was on track to roll out new,

US stocks faced a decline on Wednesday after the Federal Reserve decided to leave interest rates unchanged, signaling a cautious approach toward inflation. Investors reacted to the news with a pullback,