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

mixed on Tuesday, as investors assessed President Donald Trump's

latest tariff offensive, and hoped that upcoming trade talks

with trading partners could defuse the threat of a full-blown

trade war.

At 09:31 a.m., the Dow Jones Industrial Average fell

60.05 points, or 0.14%, to 44,339.31, the S&P 500 gained

2.58 points, or 0.05%, to 6,233.03 and the Nasdaq Composite

gained 62.52 points, or 0.31%, to 20,475.03.

(Reporting by Pranav Kashyap in Bangalore; Editing by Shinjini

Ganguli)