US STOCKS SNAPSHOT-Wall Street opens higher as chip stocks shine

Jan 15 (Reuters) - Wall Street's main indexes rose at market open on Thursday after TSMC's blockbuster quarterly results ignited a rally in chipmakers, while investors parsed earnings from Morgan Stanley and Goldman Sachs that capped big banks' reporting season.

The Dow Jones Industrial Average .DJI rose 51.5 points, or 0.10%, at the open to 49,201.1. The S&P 500 .SPX rose 42.9 points, or 0.62%, at the open to 6,969.46, while the Nasdaq Composite .IXIC rose 222.2 points, or 0.95%, to 23,693.969 at the opening bell.