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Wall St opens flat a day before Trump takes office

Published January 19, 2017 Updated January 19, 2017 05:01pm

NEW YORK: US stocks opened little changed on Thursday, with investors seemingly wary of taking on risk ahead of Donald Trump's swearing-in as US president on Friday.

The Dow Jones industrial average was up 11.85 points, or 0.06 percent, at 19,816.57, the S&P 500 was up 1.02 points, or 0.04 percent, at 2,272.91 and the Nasdaq composite was up 4.99 points, or 0.09 percent, at 5,560.64.

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