(New York) Wall Street opened slightly higher Wednesday after a checkered session the day before, in a sluggish end-of-year market.
The Dow Jones index, slightly in the red before the opening on futures, opened up 0.15% and the S&P 500 0.14%. The NASDAQ was stable at + 0.06%.
As of Tuesday, the indices had closed on a mixed note, with markets weighing the possible impact of the Omicron variant. The Dow Jones advanced 0.26% to 36,398.21 points. The NASDAQ was down 0.56% to 15,781.72 points.
The S&P 500, after two consecutive highs, had conceded 0.10% to 4786.35 points.