Aug 8 (Reuters) - Wall Street's main indexes opened

higher on Thursday, bolstered by better-than-expected labor

market data that eased worries of a slowdown in the world's

largest economy.

The Dow Jones Industrial Average rose 176.9 points,

or 0.46%, at the open to 38940.38.

The S&P 500 rose 53.1 points, or 1.02%, to 5252.57​,

while the Nasdaq Composite rose 212.5 points, or 1.31%,

to 16408.265.

(Reporting by Shubham Batra in Bengaluru)