Wall St. pushes ahead at openU.S. stocks gain ground as investors shake off credit crunch blues.NEW YORK (CNNMoney.com) -- U.S. stocks edged higher Tuesday as investors took a breather from credit crunch worries. The Dow Jones industrial average rose 0.3 percent. The Nasdaq composite index was 0.5 percent higher. The Standard & Poor's 500 index gained 0.3 percent. Among stocks in the news early Tuesday: Sun Microsystems (Charts, Fortune 500), Hovnanian Enterprises (Charts, Fortune 500), Beazer Homes (Charts), Mesa Air Group (Charts), SLM Corp. (Charts, Fortune 500) and Sony (Charts). |
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