May 5 (Reuters) – Wall Street’s main indexes rose after market open on Tuesday as oil prices declined despite renewed Middle East tensions that threatened to upend a fragile truce after the U.S. and Iran exchanged fire in the Gulf. The Dow Jones Industrial Average rose 95.2 points, or 0.19%, at the open to 49,037.12. […]
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Wall St opens higher as oil slips despite Middle East tensions
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May 5 (Reuters) – Wall Street’s main indexes rose after market open on Tuesday as oil prices declined despite renewed Middle East tensions that threatened to upend a fragile truce after the U.S. and Iran exchanged fire in the Gulf.
The Dow Jones Industrial Average rose 95.2 points, or 0.19%, at the open to 49,037.12. The S&P 500 rose 32.9 points, or 0.46%, at the open to 7,233.62, while the Nasdaq Composite rose 191.1 points, or 0.76%, to 25,258.882.
(Reporting by Niket Nishant and Utkarsh Hathi in Bengaluru; Editing by Pooja Desai)