US STOCKS SNAPSHOT-Wall St opens flat ahead of Christmas break

-1.76%

-2.06%

-2.39%

Dow Jones Industrial Average

DJI

48488.59

-1.76%

S&P 500 index

SPX

6796.86

-2.06%

NASDAQ

IXIC

22954.32

-2.39%

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 .DJI fell 42.67 points, or 0.09%, to 48,399.74. The S&P 500 .SPX lost 0.70 points, or 0.01%, to 6,909.09, and the Nasdaq Composite .IXIC dipped 25.58 points, or 0.06%, to 23,542.31 points.

(Reporting by Sruthi Shankar in Bengaluru; Editing by Shilpi Majumdar)

((sruthi.shankar@thomsonreuters.com;))

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