Overview: Amazon's (AMZN) and Intel's (INTC) earnings offered conflicting impulses for Asia-Pacific equities, but Japanese, Chinese, Australian, and South Korean shares advanced. This will allow the regional MSCI benchmark to solidify its third consecutive weekly gain. Europe's Dow Jones Stoxx 600 is little changed, and it too is closing in on its third weekly advance. US shares are little changed, and the S&P 500 is up about 0.8% this week, coming into today's session. It has finished a week above 3000 only once since the end of July and closed at 3010 yesterday. Except for