India, Aug. 26 -- After ending the previous session mostly lower on late-day weakness, stocks have shown a lack of direction over the course of the trading day on Tuesday. The major averages have spent the day bouncing back and forth across the unchanged line.

Currently, the major averages are narrowly mixed. While the Dow is down 7.72 points or less than a tenth of a percent at 45,274.75, the S&P 500 is up 1.11 points or less than a tenth of a percent at 6,440.43 and the Nasdaq is up 30.14 points or 0.1 percent at 21,479.43.

The choppy trading on Wall Street comes as traders seem reluctant to make significant moves ahead of earnings news from Nvidia (NVDA), with the AI darling and market leader due to report its second quarter results af...