US stocks open higher, Dow up 0.2pc after worst session of year

15 Aug, 2019

About five minutes into trading, the Dow Jones Industrial Average was at 25,531.36, up 0.2 percent.

The broad-based S&P 500 also added 0.2 percent at 2,846.22, along with the tech-rich Nasdaq Composite Index, which stood at 2,846.22.

Major US indices lost about three percent Wednesday after a key US bond benchmark raised recession worries amid mushrooming fears of a global slowdown due in part to the US-China trade war.

Copyright AFP (Agence France-Press), 2019
 

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