[U.S. stocks opened slightly higher, Accenture soared 18% as performance exceeded expectations] On October 1, the three major U.S. stock indexes opened slightly higher, with the Dow Jones Index rising 0.26%, the S&P 500 Index rising 0.25%, and the Nasdaq Composite Index rising 0.46%. Among popular stocks, NVIDIA's stock price rose 0.42%, Apple's stock price fell 0.9%, Google-A's stock price rose 2.32%, Microsoft's stock price rose 1.38%, Amazon's stock price rose 0.63%, TSMC's stock price fell 0.15%, SpaceX's stock price rose 0.68%, Meta's stock price rose 0.84%, Broadcom's stock price rose 0.63%, Tesla's stock price rose 0.73%, SK Hynix's stock price rose 1.11%, Micron Technology's stock price fell 0.89%, AMD's stock price rose 0.14%, ASML's stock price fell 0.18%, Intel's stock price fell 1.26%, Cisco's stock price rose 0.37%, Oracle's stock price rose 1.82%, Dell Technology-C's stock price fell 0.07%, ARM's stock price rose 0.96%, and SanDisk's stock price rose 0.12%. Accenture rose by 18%. The company's revenue in the fourth quarter of this fiscal year was US$18.7 billion, higher than the market estimate of US$18.04 billion, a year-on-year increase of 6.3%; earnings per share were US$3.29, compared with US$2.25 in the same period last year.