Stocks opened slightly higher Wednesday, with the S&P 500 trading above its record close of 4,232.60 set on May 7 as investors continued to await Thursday's May consumer-price index data. The Dow Jones Industrial Average
DJIA,
+0.04%
was off 1 point at 34,598 after opening with a modest gain. The S&P 500
SPX,
+0.10%
was up 0.2% at 4,233.84, while the Nasdaq Composite
COMP,
+0.19%
rose 0.4% to 13,985.59.