Wall Street brushes off DC's shutdown, but yields sink on discouraging data about the economy

NEW YORK (AP) — Wall Street still doesn't seem to care much about the latest shutdown of the U.S. government , as stocks drift around their records on Wednesday, but yields are sinking in the bond market following the latest discouraging signals on the economy.

The S&P 500 rose 0.1% in afternoon trading. The Dow Jones Industrial Average rose 6 points, or less than 0.1%, to its all-time high set the day before, while the Nasdaq composite rose 0.1%, as of 12:24 p.m. Eastern time.