Sept 8 (Reuters) – Wall Street’s main indexes were mixed at open on Tuesday as fresh hostilities in the Middle East pushed oil prices to their highest since late July, while markets await inflation data due later this week. The Dow Jones Industrial Average fell 303.8 points, or 0.57%, at the open to 53,110.45. The […]
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Wall St mixed at open as Gulf tensions send oil to over six-week high
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Sept 8 (Reuters) – Wall Street’s main indexes were mixed at open on Tuesday as fresh hostilities in the Middle East pushed oil prices to their highest since late July, while markets await inflation data due later this week.
The Dow Jones Industrial Average fell 303.8 points, or 0.57%, at the open to 53,110.45. The S&P 500 fell 0.8 points, or 0.01%, at the open to 7,717.81, while the Nasdaq Composite rose 21.6 points, or 0.08%, to 26,528.571.
(Reporting by Niket Nishant and Tharuniyaa Lakshmi in Bengaluru; Editing by Joyjeet Das)