 "A Wall St. sign is seen outside the entrance of the New York Stock Exchange in New York's financial district")
US stocks opened little changed on Wednesday as commodity prices recovered and positive economic data from Europe helped soften the impact of weak Chinese factory data.
The Dow Jones industrial average rose 4.71 points, or 0.03%, to 16,335.18. The S&P 500 gained 1.73 points, or 0.09%, to 1,944.47 and the Nasdaq composite added 7.92 points, or 0.17%, to 4,764.65.
