U.S. stocks opened flat Friday, putting the main benchmarks on track to log their fourth straight weekly gain. A session earlier, the Dow industrials snapped a nine-session win streak — the index’s longest such streak since March 2013. On Friday, a barrage of earnings results drove individual stocks, while the broader market got a boost from better-than-expected earnings from companies like General Electric Co. , Whirlpool Corp. and Honeywell International Inc. . The Dow Jones Industrial Average added 10 points, or 0.1%, to 18,527, the S&P 500 index gained a point, or less than 0.1% at 2,166, while the Nasdaq Composite Index advanced 2 points, or less than 0.1%, to 5,076.
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