Representative AI imageThe Dow Jones Industrial Average opened with a surge of 93.4 points, or 0.19 per cent, at 48,475.81. The S&P 500 was up 33.7 points, or 0.49 per cent, at 6,892.19, while the Nasdaq Composite jumped 214 points, or 0.92 per cent, to 23,449.67.Shares of major oil companies also jumped in early Wall Street trading, in the aftermath of Maduro's capture. Chevron and ConocoPhillips climbed more than 4 per cent at opening, while ExxonMobil shares were up 2.1 per cent.Tech stocks are in focus ...

US stocks opened muted on Friday as a holiday-shortened week and downbeat month drew to a close and as the Chicago Mercantile Exchange resumed trading following a data center glitch. The tech-heavy Nasdaq Composite (^IXIC) led stocks lightly upward on Black Friday, gaining around 0.4% in the first minutes of trading. The generalist S&P 500 (^GSPC) and Dow Jones Industrial Average (^DJI) both rose by a bit more than 0.2%. The CME Group restored operations after a long outage disrupted live trading in futu ...