New York - Wall Street stocks opened little-changed on Thursday following a plethora of earnings reports as the European Central Bank kept interest rates steady.
Five minutes into trade, the Dow Jones Industrial Average stood at 18 098.39, up 2.12 points.
The broad-based S&P 500 added 0.04% at 2 103.21, while the tech-rich Nasdaq Composite Index rose 0.04% to 4 950.31.
The Dow and the S&P 500 closed on Wednesday at their highest levels of 2016 amid a flurry of first quarter earnings reports from General Motors, American Express and others.
"Company after company is topping lowered expectations," said Briefing.com analyst Patrick O'Hare, adding that the market is punishing underperformers.
The ECB governing council voted, as expected, to keep the benchmark "refi" interest rate at its current all-time low of zero percent, after cutting it to that level in March, an ECB spokesperson said.