wall street stocks opened higher on wednesday extending a bullish run ahead of earnings later in the day from netflix and tesla stocks have been on an upswing in the wake of financial data that suggest the possibility of a soft landing for the economy where inflation moderates but the united states does not go into recession about 15 minutes into trading the dow jones industrial average was up 04 percent at 3507644 the index has risen the last seven days the broadbased sp 500 advanced 04 percent to 457480 while the techrich nasdaq composite index gained 05 percent to 1441894 investors have a fear of missing out on further gains according to analysts despite the sense that the market is overbought a resilience to selling interest is exactly why the stock market has kept pressing higher said briefingcom analyst patrick ohare among individual companies goldman sachs shares fell 10 percent as it reported weakerthanexpected results profits came in at 11 billion down 62 percent from the yearago period on weakness in the merger and acquisition market and the hit from net losses and markdowns in real estate