Wall Street opens higher, Dow Jones hits record high

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- Wall Street's main indexes opened higher on Friday, with the Dow Jones hitting a session high, as investors awaited any progress in talks aimed at ending the nearly three-month-old war in the Middle East.

The Dow Jones Industrial Average rose 149 points, or 0.30 percent, at the open to 50,434.65. The S&P 500 gained 23.1 points, or 0.31 percent, to 7,468.82, while the Nasdaq Composite added 88.5 points, or 0.34 percent, to 26,381.564.