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Markets Right Now: US stocks edge higher in early trade

Stocks are edging higher in early trading on Wall Street as investors pore over a large batch of company earnings reports

The Associated Press

April 27, 2017 9:40 am

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The latest on developments in financial markets (All times local):

9:35 a.m.

Stocks are edging higher in early trading on Wall Street as investors pore over a large batch of company earnings reports.

Comcast and Union Pacific rose in early trading Thursday after reporting their earnings, while United Parcel Service and Southwest Airlines fell.

The Standard & Poor’s 500 index was up a fraction at 2,387.

The Dow Jones industrial average rose 12 points, or 0.1 percent, to 20,986. The Nasdaq composite rose 6 points, or 0.1 percent, to 6,032.

The Russell 2000 index of smaller-company stocks was flat at 1,419.

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