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Wall Street opens higher as banks jump


    NEW YORK (Reuters) - Stocks rose at the open on Tuesday as positive developments in European financials helped bank shares and investors shrugged off a drop in home prices as having already been priced in to the markets.

    U.S. home prices fell a record 19 percent in January.

    The Dow Jones industrial average rose 75.90 points, or 1.01 percent, to 7,597.92. The Standard & Poor's 500 Index gained 8.36 points, or 1.06 percent, to 795.89. The Nasdaq Composite Index added 22.27 points, or 1.48 percent, to 1,524.07.

    (Reporting by Rodrigo Campos; Editing by James Dalgleish)