Stocks Open Higher After Jobless Claims, Housing Starts

Posted on January 17, 2013 at 09:30 AM EST

Stocks opened higher Thursday as Wall Street cheered a pair of encouraging data that showed weekly jobless claims tumbled to a five-year low and housing starts jumped to their highest rate since June 2008.

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