US stocks steady at open after retail sales data
Wall Street indexes opened flat to slightly higher on Tuesday following soft retail sales data, with commentary awaited from a slew of Federal Reserve officials later in the day. The Dow Jones Industrial Average rose 1.02 points at the open to 38,779.12. The S&P 500 opened higher by 2.92 points, or 0.05%, at 5,476.15, while…