The three major U.S. stock indexes opened higher, with NVIDIA (NVDA. O) up about 2.8 percent.

U.S. stocks opened higher, with the Dow up 0.3 percent, the S & P 500 up 0.75 percent and the Nasdaq up 1.17 percent. NVIDIA (NVDA. O) rose about 2.8 percent as the company is expected to unveil a new RTX 5090/5080 graphics card at tomorrow's CES technology event.