Dec 26 (Reuters) – Wall Street indexes opened nearly flat in light post-Christmas trading on Friday, while investors bet that more interest rate cuts and strong corporate earnings would propel markets to fresh highs next year.
At 09:30 a.m. ET, the Dow Jones Industrial Average fell 7.15 points, or 0.01%, to 48,724.01. The S&P 500 gained 6.25 points, or 0.09%, to 6,938.30, and the Nasdaq Composite rose 32.06 points, or 0.10%, to 23,645.37.
(Reporting by Sruthi Shankar in Bengaluru; Editing by Shilpi Majumdar)
