Techs rally at open

NEW YORK (CNNMoney.com) -- Cisco Systems' results and forecast sparked a solid tech stock advance at the start of Wednesday's U.S. trading.

The Nasdaq composite index rose more than one-half percent .The Dow Jones industrial average was 0.1 percent higher. The Standard & Poor's 500 index gained 0.2 percent.

Stocks in the news at the open: Cisco Systems (up $0.00 to $27.28, Charts), Nortel (up $0.00 to $25.93, Charts), News Corp., (down $0.06 to $24.15, Charts) DirecTV (up $0.00 to $23.97, Charts), Whirlpool (up $0.00 to $94.90, Charts) and TiVo (up $0.00 to $5.48, Charts).

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