US stocks open modestly higher in quiet trading – seattlepi.com
NEW YORK (AP) — U.S. stocks rose modestly in early trading Wednesday, recovering some of the steep losses the market had the day before.KEEPING SCORE: The Dow Jones industrial average rose 49 points, or 0.3 percent, to 18,092 as of 9:45 a.m. Eastern. The Standard & Poor’s 500 index rose seven points, or 0.3 percent, to 2,111 and the Nasdaq […]