(Sept 8) U.S. stock market opens slightly lower on Wednesday as investors await Beige book.
The Dow Jones Industrial Average rose just 3 points. The S&P 500 traded around the flat line. The Nasdaq Composite fell 0.4% after closing at a record on Tuesday.
Some China concepts stocks fell in early trading.
Kadmon surged over 70% in early trading. Sanofi strengthens transplant business with acquisition of Kadmon for $1.9B.
Softbank Group Corp rose for second day as investors hope for buybacks. “We think a buyback is now likely,” Citigroup Inc. analyst Mitsunobu Tsuruo wrote in a note on Wednesday, after the announcement of the Deutsche Telekom deal that will see SoftBank acquire 4.5% of the German carrier as well as sell part of its stake in T-Mobile US Inc.
That deal should eventually cash out over 1.45 trillion yen ($13.1 billion) in total that may be allotted to a “major share buyback,” Tsuruo wrote.
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