Sept 23 (Reuters) – Wall Street’s main indexes opened lower on Wednesday, pressured by rising crude prices and government bond yields as investors awaited developments from negotiations to end the Middle East conflict ahead of the high-stakes US-China summit. The Dow Jones Industrial Average fell 92.3 points, or 0.18%, at the open to 51,771.41. The […]
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Sept 23 (Reuters) – Wall Street’s main indexes opened lower on Wednesday, pressured by rising crude prices and government bond yields as investors awaited developments from negotiations to end the Middle East conflict ahead of the high-stakes US-China summit.
The Dow Jones Industrial Average fell 92.3 points, or 0.18%, at the open to 51,771.41. The S&P 500 fell 2.7 points, or 0.03%, at the open to 7,761.94, while the Nasdaq Composite dropped 30.8 points, or 0.11%, to 27,213.519 at the opening bell.
(Reporting by Avinash P in Bengaluru; Editing by Shinjini Ganguli)