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New York • The stock market is starting off September with slight gains, led by retailers and other consumer stocks.
Wynn Resorts jumped 6 percent, the most in the Standard & Poor's 500 index. Cruise operator Royal Caribbean rose 3 percent.
Campbell Soup sank 5 percent after reporting results that fell short of analysts' forecasts.
At 7:35 a.m. Mountain time, the Dow Jones industrial average rose 28 points, or 0.2 percent, to 18,429.
The Standard & Poor's 500 index added 2 points, or 0.1 percent, to 2,173. The Nasdaq composite gained 13 points, or 0.3 percent, to 5,227.
Bond prices fell. The yield on the 10-year Treasury note rose to 1.61 percent.