Wall Street opens in the green as Lucid surges 30% on Uber's robotaxi program

Wall Street opened Thursday's session trading in positive territory. The S&P 500 gained 0.06% to 6,267.56 points, the Nasdaq rose 0.18% to 20,767.70 points, and the Dow Jones Industrial Average rose 0.07% to 44,285.81 points.

Thursday's session saw a substantial 30.3% gain for electric vehicle manufacturer Lucid, after it was reported that Lucid Group, Nuro, and Uber will develop a robotaxi program exclusively for the Uber platform.

"Uber will deploy 20,000 or more Lucid vehicles equipped with Nuro Driver over the next six years. The vehicles will be owned and operated by Uber or one of its partners and will be available exclusively on the Uber platform. The first Lucid-Nuro robotaxi is already operating autonomously in a closed loop at Nuro's Las Vegas facility," the automaker said.

Also notable was TSMC's 2.4% gain after the semiconductor company reported a 38.6% increase in revenue to $27.3 billion in the second quarter. Profit rose 60% to $11.7 billion.

Among the main European stock exchanges, the DAX (Germany) rose 0.79% to 24,266.22 points, the CAC 40 (France) rose 1.18% to 7,813.28 points and the FTSE 100 (United Kingdom) grew 0.50% to 8,970.80 points.

The AEX (Netherlands) rose 1.25% to 913.37 points, the IBEX 35 (Spain) rose 0.42% to 13,966.50 points, and the FTSE MIB (Italy) rose 0.61% to 40,006.00 points. The PSI (Portugal) rose 0.17% to 7,707.05 points.

Oil is trading higher with Brent rising 0.07% to $68.57 and crude rising 0.29% to $66.57.

The euro is falling 0.41% against the dollar to $1.15880 and the euro is devaluing 0.31% against the pound to $0.86456.

Updated at 3:12 p.m.