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Stocks open flat to slightly lower after retail earnings
Stocks opened flat to slightly lower Wednesday, with major indexes trading not far off record levels, as investors digested earnings from big-box retailers and assessed inflation worries. The Dow Jones Industrial Average was down 61 points, or 0.2%, at 36,081, while the S&P 500 was down 0.1% at 4,694 and the Nasdaq Composite edged down 0.1% to 15,958. Shares of home-improvement retailer Lowe’s Cos. jumped more than 3%, while shares of Target Corp. dropped 3.9% after both delivered quarterly resu
