The stock market opened up for trading on a positive note today. At 9:30 am EST the S&P, Dow and Nasdaq Futures were all in the positives after being mainly down over the past several days. S&P stood at a 1.01% gain, up a total of 37.75 points with the Dow gaining a total of 228.00 points, despite the over 200-point positive, Dow being only up by 0.75%, Nasdaq was up by 1.27% overall, a gain of 143.75 points.