Wall Street was mixed today in slow post-holiday trading, the Associated Press reports, with futures for the S&P 500 inching up less than 0.1% before the bell and futures for the Dow Jones Industrial Average falling less than 0.1%.
Tesla picked up another 1.7% early this morning and was on track for its eighth straight winning day after reporting earlier this week that sales fell again last quarter, but not as sharply as many had believed. Its shares are up nearly 36% since June 24.
U.S. benchmark crude oil gained a penny to $83.87 per barrel in electronic trading on the New York Mercantile Exchange. Brent crude, the international standard, declined 13 cents to $87.30 per barrel.
The dollar slipped to 160.66 Japanese yen from 161.26 yen.
