Dec 24 (Reuters) – Wall Street indexes opened nearly flat in shortened Christmas Eve trading on Wednesday, as traders wait to see whether stocks can extend record gains in a seasonally strong stretch for markets.
At 09:30 a.m. ET, the Dow Jones Industrial Average fell 42.67 points, or 0.09%, to 48,399.74. The S&P 500 lost 0.70 points, or 0.01%, to 6,909.09, and the Nasdaq Composite dipped 25.58 points, or 0.06%, to 23,542.31 points.
(Reporting by Sruthi Shankar in Bengaluru; Editing by Shilpi Majumdar)