Thursday, July 12, 2007

Wall Street opens higher on retailers

(Reuters) - U.S. stocks rose at the open on Thursday after a flurry of retailers such as Wal-Mart Stores Inc. Target Corp and J.C. Penney Co. Inc. released reassuring monthly sales figures and outlooks.

The Dow Jones industrial average was up 60.96 points, or 0.45 percent, at 13,638.83. The Standard & Poor's 500 Index


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