NEW YORK (AP) — Stocks are inching mostly higher in early trading on Wall Street after the government reported a pickup in retail sales last month.

The Standard & Poor's 500 index was up two points, or 0.1 percent, at 1,691 shortly after the opening of trading Tuesday.

The Dow Jones industrial average was flat at 15,416. The Nasdaq composite was up two points, less than 0.1 percent, at 3,671.

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