Stocks Steady at Open

It was another calm open for stocks, with the major indices building ever so slightly on three days of positive movement, the Wall Street Journal reports. The Dow is up 55 points, while the S&P inched up 0.5%, and the Nasdaq slipped down 0.1%. The Dow is up 9.5% over the past three days, but analysts are wondering if this is merely a bear market rally. Economists still expect GDP to decline at a 4.6% annual rate this quarter. (More stock market stories.)