US stock market opens higher

By Ovunc Kutlu

NEW YORK

The stock market opened higher on Monday as oil prices went up.

The Dow added 21 points to begin the day at 20,677 points and the S&P 500 rose less than 3 points to 2,359 points.

The Nasdaq increased 9 points to start the first trading day of the new week at 5,887 points.

At the first bell, American benchmark West Texas Intermediate was trading at $52.80 per barrel with a 1.2 percent gain, and international benchmark Brent crude was at $55.83 with a 1.1 percent increase.