The S&P 500 flirts with a record as U.S. stock-market investors return from a three-day weekend, awaiting minutes from the Federal Reserve's January meeting and data due later this week.

Wall Street is flirting with a record again as U.S. stock indexes drift on Tuesday.The S&P 500 was virtually unchanged in afternoon trading and just below its all-time closing high set last month. The Dow Jones Industrial Average was down 74 points,

The S&P 500 (SP500) finished at a closing high Tuesday, after investors spent a choppy session with their attention on geopolitics and potential deal-making. The benchmark S&P 500 (SP500) ended +0.2%,