wall street stocks were higher at the end of a choppy session tuesday as beatendown regional banking shares advanced on a quiet day for markets investor sentiment has broadly improved with us lawmakers agreeing on a compromise fiscal package to avert a debt default and financial shares stabilizing following the failure of four regional banks earlier in the year shares of keycorp fifth third bancorp and comerica all rose about five percent or more on tuesday the dow jones industrial average edged up less than 01 percent to 3357328 the broadbased sp 500 gained 02 percent to 428385 while the techrich nasdaq composite index climbed 04 percent to 1327642 wall streets summer doldrums started early this year said a note from charles schwab its only the beginning of june but it feels like the market is already on summer vacation after all the excitement of recent weeks among individual companies boeing dipped 07 percent as it disclosed that nearterm deliveries of the boeing 787 would be slowed due to an issue with a supplier part the aviation giant does not expect the problem to affect its fullyear delivery projections pharmaceutical giant merck dropped 27 percent as it filed a suit against the government medicare program challenging a new plan to limit prices