Wall Street opens higher on retail sales
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Stocks rose on Thursday after strong August sales from Wal-Mart Stores Inc  and other retailers combined with positive economic data calmed concerns about mortgage market turmoil hurting the broader economy.
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London equities moved higher in opening trade on Thursday, helped by buoyant financial stocks and a fresh set of bid talk.
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U.S. stocks opened higher on Thursday,  helped by companies such as Wal-Mart Stores Inc. WMT.N and  Costco Wholesale Corp.COST.O  as a slew of retailers reported  holiday sales data, although weekly jobless data caused some  concern.
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U.S. stocks opened higher on Tuesday  after two separate reports showed inflationary pressure was  held in check in July and U.S. housing starts rebounded sharply  in the same month.
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Wall Street opened higher on Tuesday after a rebound in Asian and European markets, overlooking economic reports that pointed to a downturn in manufacturing and an increase in labor costs.
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Wall Street stocks were moderately higher in early trade on Thursday with investors digesting better than expected retail sales for August amid concerns over elevated money market rates.
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NEW YORK - Stocks inched higher Thursday as investors shrugged off sluggish retail sales, a disappointing reading on worker productivity and a surge in oil prices.    In morning trading, the Dow Jones industrial average was up 16.90, or 0.2 percent, at 10,185.36...
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A strong retail sales report and fresh talk of takeovers initially boosted U.S. stocks on Wednesday, but gains disappeared quickly as traders had renewed worries about the outlook for interest rates.
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U.S. stocks opened higher on Monday,  extending Friday's rally, with oil prices sliding and investor  sentiment showing improvement ahead of the flow of quarterly  earnings reports that begins this week.
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Stocks rose steadily in late trading Friday as Wall Street welcomed a new retail sales report that showed an increase in consumer spending.
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WALL Street opened higher today on the heels of last week&#39;s closing rally, with investors awaiting the latest snapshot on US factory orders.
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U.S. stocks opened with an upbeat start to 2005, rising on Monday as oil prices tumbled, Wal-Mart Stores Inc.  brightened its outlook for December sales, and Goldman Sachs raising fourth-quarter estimates for Google Inc.  and Yahoo Inc. .
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US STOCKS rose on Friday after a government report showed better-than-expected retail sales and United States Federal Reserve Chairman Alan Greenspan suggested that record oil prices would not slow economic growth.
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Stocks roared upward yesterday led by the Dow Jones industrial average, which rode good retail news to record highs, showing its biggest one-day gain in nearly four years.
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U.S. stocks rose on Tuesday, getting a  boost from some strong retail earnings, lower oil prices and  two separate economic reports that showed inflationary pressure  was held in check and U.S. housing starts rebounded sharply in  July.
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US stocks opened higher on Monday, with Wall Street extending its year-end rally in what is expected to be a light, post-holiday trading day.
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Wall Street stocks crept higher on Thursday after news of a modest increase in private sector employment and a larger-than-expected rise in new factory orders cheered cautious investors.