Wall Street ripped gains on Thursday, with market participants taking confidence from the Federal Reserve's bumper half-point rate cut the previous day and jumping back into growth stocks. With a night to digest the Fed's decision,

U.S. stock indexes remained stuck in place as Wall Street waited for the Federal Reserve to make its first interest rate cut in more than four years.

Wall Street ticked slightly higher as markets awaited an expected interest rate cut by the U.S. Federal Reserve, the first in more than four years.