{"id":122204,"date":"2021-10-01T15:40:08","date_gmt":"2021-10-01T15:40:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/fin2me.com\/?p=122204"},"modified":"2021-10-01T15:40:08","modified_gmt":"2021-10-01T15:40:08","slug":"wall-street-opens-higher-on-bargain-hunting-merck-boost","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/fin2me.com\/business\/wall-street-opens-higher-on-bargain-hunting-merck-boost\/","title":{"rendered":"Wall Street opens higher on bargain hunting, Merck boost"},"content":{"rendered":"<figcaption>FILE PHOTO: A Wall Street sign is pictured outside the New York Stock Exchange in New York, October 28, 2013.  REUTERS\/Carlo Allegri<\/figcaption><p>(Reuters) &#8211; Wall Street\u2019s main indexes opened higher on Friday as steep losses in September saw investors buying into cheaper sectors, while drugmaker Merck rose on marking progress in the development of an oral COVID-19 drug.<\/p>\n<p>The Dow Jones Industrial Average rose 86.78 points, or 0.26%, at the open to 33,930.70. The S&amp;P 500 opened higher by 9.62 points, or 0.22%, at 4,317.16, while the Nasdaq Composite gained 46.35 points, or 0.32%, to 14,494.93 at the opening bell.<\/p>\n<p>Source: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.reuters.com\/article\/usa-stocks\/wall-street-opens-higher-on-bargain-hunting-merck-boost-idUSKBN2GR3I0\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Read Full Article<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>FILE PHOTO: A Wall Street sign is pictured outside the New York Stock Exchange in New York, October 28, 2013. REUTERS\/Carlo Allegri(Reuters) &#8211; Wall Street\u2019s [&#8230;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":122203,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v21.7 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>Wall Street opens higher on bargain hunting, Merck boost - Fin2me<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/fin2me.com\/business\/wall-street-opens-higher-on-bargain-hunting-merck-boost\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Wall Street opens higher on bargain hunting, Merck boost - Fin2me\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"FILE PHOTO: A Wall Street sign is pictured outside the New York Stock Exchange in New York, October 28, 2013. 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