Stocks waver in early trading as investors wait on Congress
NEW YORK (AP) — Stocks are wobbling between small gains and losses in early trading on Wall Street as investors try to hold on to optimism that Congress will finally deliver on a long-awaited aid package for the economy. The S&P 500 was little changed after the first few minutes of trading Friday, and the tech-heavy Nasdaq was up 0.1%. Major U.S. indexes coasted to record high levels a day earlier. Late Thursday the head of the Food and Drug Administration said that his agency will move to quickly authorize the second vaccine to fight the pandemic, hours after it won the endorsement of an advisory panel.
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