U.S. equity benchmarks opened mostly higher Tuesday, one day after setting a pair of records and on the second day of the busiest week for corporate earnings reports. The Dow Jones Industrial Average
DJIA,
+0.01%
slipped 0.2% or 56 points, trading near 33,926. at last check. The S&P 500
SPX,
-0.02%
added 5 points, 0.1%, to open near 4,193. The Nasdaq Composite
COMP,
-0.34%
jumped 32 points, or 0.2%, starting the session near 14,171. Roughly one-third of companies in the S&P 500 have reported their Q1 earnings so far, and about 80% of those have beaten forecasts, according to FactSet data. One such beat was Tesla Inc.
TSLA,
-4.53%,
which reported after the bell Monday. Shares were lower Tuesday morning.