Traders aren’t making big moves on the final day of a huge month for the stock market.
Investors are reacting coolly to a report that the nation’s economy shrank at a slower pace than expected in the April-June quarter.
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The nation’s gross domestic product, a measure of the economy’s total output, slowed at a rate of 1 percent during the quarter.
The Dow is up 8.4 percent for the month, its strongest July since 1989.
At midday, the Dow Jones industrial average is up 33 at 9,186. The Standard & Poor’s 500 index is up 3 at 989. The Nasdaq composite index is up 8 at 1,992.
