Wall Street opens flat as Feds divided on rates

Wall Street opens flat as Feds divided on rates
Dow Jones industrial average fell 1.99 points to 18,571.95. Image of traders on Wall Street. Photo: Reuters

Wall Street opened little changed on Thursday, a day after minutes of the Federal Reserve`s July meeting showed policymakers were divided over whether to raise interest rates in the near-term.

The Dow Jones industrial average fell 1.99 points, or 0.01 percent, to 18,571.95, the S&P 500 gained 0.3 points, or 0.01 percent, to 2,182.52 and the Nasdaq Composite index added 0.35 points, or 0.01 percent, to 5,229.01.

(Reporting by Tanya Agrawal; Editing by Saumyadeb Chakrabarty)