U.S. stock indexes opened higher on Tuesday as upbeat quarterly reports from Johnson & Johnson and Travelers fired up risk appetite, after big banks kicked off the third-quarter earnings season on a positive note last week.
The Dow Jones Industrial Average rose 66.76 points, or 0.19 per cent, at the open to 35,325.37.
The S&P 500 opened higher by 10.88 points, or 0.24 per cent, at 4,497.34, while the Nasdaq Composite gained 51.32 points, or 0.34 per cent, to 15,073.13 at the opening bell.
