Oct 31 (Reuters) - The S&P 500 and the Nasdaq opened

higher on Friday after upbeat forecasts from Apple and Amazon

helped calm nerves, a day after the indexes suffered their

sharpest drop in more than three weeks.

At 09:30 a.m., the Dow Jones Industrial Average rose

64.86 points, or 0.13%, to 47,586.98, the S&P 500 gained

50.31 points, or 0.74%, to 6,872.65 and the Nasdaq Composite

gained 356.45 points, or 1.51%, to 23,932.36.

(Reporting by Pranav Kashyap in Bengaluru; Editing by Shinjini

Ganguli)