Wall Street opens flat
U.S. stocks opened close to the flat line following little news save for the latest corporate deal-making.
At 10:19 a.m. ET the Russell 2000 was down 4.73 points, or 0.56 percent, to 843.46. Dow Jones Industrial Average had lost 14.06 points, or 0.10 percent, to 13,625.42.
Australia’s BHP Billiton Ltd. (NYSE: BHP), the world’s largest mining company, is renewing its $40 billion bid for Pittsburgh, Pa.-based aluminum producer Alcoa Inc. (NYSE: AA), according to Britain’s The Times newspaper.
Elsewhere, General Electric Co. (NYSE: GE) may join forces with Pearson PLC, which publishes the Financial Times, to make an offer for Dow Jones & Company, Inc. (NYSE: DJ) that tops that of Rupert Murdoch’s News Corp. (NYSE: NWS), according to The Wall Street Journal.
The following were the most actively traded companies in Monday's trading among those with market capitalizations under $500 million:
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