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
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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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