NEW YORK, May 17 (Xinhua) -- U.S. stocks opened higher Thursday after the previous session's rally.
In the opening trading, the Dow Jones Industrial Average was up8.29, to13,479.24. The Standard & Poor's 500 index gained 0.13 to 1,514.01, and the Nasdaq composite index added 3.10 to 2,544.32.
U.S. stocks ended higher on Wednesday, with Dow hitting a new record, after U.S. industrial production rose mildly.
U.S. industrial production rose by 0.7 percent in April after a drop of 0.3 percent in March, the Federal Reserve reported Wednesday. Overall industrial production for April was 1.9 percent above the level in the same month of 2006.
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