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US STOCKS SNAPSHOT-Wall Street opens higher as Powell's speech looms large
Aug 22, 2025 6:58 AM

Aug 22 (Reuters) - Wall Street's main indexes opened

higher on Friday as investors awaited Federal Reserve Chair

Jerome Powell's Jackson Hole Symposium speech for insights into

the interest-rate path.

The Dow Jones Industrial Average rose 167.4 points,

or 0.37%, at the open to 44952.88. The S&P 500 rose 14.4

points, or 0.23%, at the open to 6384.59​, while the Nasdaq

Composite rose 39.5 points, or 0.19%, to 21139.826 at

the opening bell.

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