Wall Street ticks up with eyes on tech earnings

NEW YORK (Reuters) - The S&P 500 edged higher on Thursday as investors looked beyond disappointing earnings from Ford and ahead to quarterly scorecards from technology heavyweights Alphabet and Amazon.

The Dow Jones industrial average <.DJI> fell 15.96 points, or 0.09 percent, to 18,456.21, the S&P 500 <.SPX> gained 3.47 points, or 0.16 percent, to 2,170.05 and the Nasdaq Composite <.IXIC> added 15.17 points, or 0.3 percent, to 5,154.98.

(Reporting by Noel Randewich; Editing by Nick Zieminski)