By STAN CHOE, Associated Press Business Writer

NEW YORK (AP) — U.S. stocks are drifting around their records on Thursday as technology stocks keep rising and as Wall Street keeps ignoring the shutdown of the U.S. government .

The S&P 500 was mostly unchanged, coming off its latest all-time high . The Dow Jones Industrial Average fell 81 points, or 0.2%, as of 10:38 a.m. Eastern time, and the Nasdaq composite was 0.3% higher and heading toward its own record.

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