Stocks open higher, heading for quarterly gain

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NEW YORK (AP) — Stocks are opening higher on Wall Street as the market heads for a fifth straight quarterly gain.

The Standard & Poor’s 500 index rose 11 points, or 0.6 percent, to 1,868 in the first few minutes of trading. The index is up 1.1 percent for the first quarter of the year, which ends Monday.

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