Wall Street shares - Nasdaq lower ahead of earnings

The Dow Jones was higher midsession while the Nasdaq was down along with confidence in technology stocks ahead of most earnings reports, dealers said.

At 12.48 pm, the DJIA was up 40.57 points at 10,289.35, the S&P 500 fell 1.66 points to 1,123.63 and the Nasdaq composite fell 21.69 points to 1,764.18.